> Anyway, so right now you can use "vm_insert_page()" and it will increment
> the page count and add things to the rmap lists, which is what current
> users want. But if you don't have a normal page, you should be able to
> basically avoid that part entirely, and just use
>
> set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, make-up-a-pte-here);
>
> and you're done (of course, you need to use all the appropriate magic to
> set up the pte, ie you'd normally have something like
>
> pte = get_locked_pte(mm, addr, &ptl);
> ..
> pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
>
> around it). Note that "vm_insert_page()" is _not_ for VM_PFNMAP mappings,
> exactly because it does actually increment page counts. It's for a
> "normal" mapping that just wants to insert a reference-counted page.
Yes, that's why we want a vm_insert_pfn() as I really don't want to see
PTE manipulations proliferate in drivers :) Nick is coming up with an
implementation faster than I can think about the code anyway ;)
Cheers,
Ben.
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