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Driver porting: Zero-copy user-space access

Driver porting: Zero-copy user-space access

Posted Nov 2, 2005 21:29 UTC (Wed) by rwbowman (guest, #33561)
Parent article: Driver porting: Zero-copy user-space access

TRUE or FALSE - if I map and lock a user space buffer using get_user_pages during ioctl, and then allow the ioctl to return, the pages will remnain locked until I release them with page_cache_release.

I've heard (twice now) where folks say they don't remain locked.?
Thanks!


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