On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:53:15AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I don't see anything wrong with a ->nopage approach. > > At Linus's suggestion, I used ->nopage in the implementation of > sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.c. The difference is that you return kernel memory (actually pci_alloc_consistant memory that has it's own set of problems), while this is memory not in mem_map, so he allocates some regularly kernel memory too to have a struct page and just leaks it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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