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Re: Virt To Phys

Aamer Jaleel <ajaleel@wam.umd.edu> writes:

> I'm using a kernel version 2.4.19...
>
> Functions like copy to user, copy from user, clear user, etc, all use a
> user space virtual address...  can somebody let me know how to convert a
> user space virtual address to a physical address?  I wish to convert a
> user space virtual address to a physical address... any help would be
> greatly apprecaited...

I don't know if this is the best way, but check out the follow_page
function in mm/memory.c.

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