Re: temp. mem mappings

[Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>]

** Reply to message from cohutta <cohutta@MailAndNews.com> on Tue, 5 Jun 2001
13:54:15 -0400


> what is the a preferred/correct method to map and unmap memory
> temporarily?

Allocate a virtual memory area using vmalloc and then save and modify the
pmd/pgd/pte to point to the physical memory you want.  To unmap, just undo the
previous steps.


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