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Re: mmap() for a cluster of pages



On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > My guess is simply that noone's encountered this bug before, but it's
> > > there.  
> > 
> > We should be OK.  Alan will no doubt scream if I'm wrong here.
> 
> It seems to be ok. All the bug reports in sound currently are quite
> different things

I was mistaken; all's well.  The 2.0 code wraps this in a mem_map_reserve
which my eyes blindly skipped.  Other code performing the same trick looks
right too (the bttv driver; the fb stuff looks like it has its buffers
outside of normal RAM). 

		-ben

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