From: Sadanand Warrier <sadanandwarrier@gmail.com>
To: Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: get_user_pages and pinning
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 07:39:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADJuq2zgG0FRYpNdFknoCBYAu-=ZG1XqdqW=Zkjp_cP8Tn01Ww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Folks
Since Linux uses lazy evaluation with respect to allocating memory
what happens if a user process allocates memory using malloc in excess
of say 8 or nine pages and calls a device ioctl and passes the user
space pointer to it to be used to pin pages using get_user_pages().
This buffer is to be used for a dma read from a device.
What happens if the memory isn't actually allocated (no initialization
with memset or calloc etc. and all PTEs are pointing to some zero
filled page) and there is no IOMMU?
Thanks
S
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-02 12:39 Sadanand Warrier [this message]
2021-01-02 13:08 ` get_user_pages and pinning Cengiz Can
2021-01-03 17:54 ` Sadanand Warrier
2021-01-03 18:26 ` Rik van Riel
2021-01-03 18:54 ` Sadanand Warrier
2021-01-02 13:20 ` Greg KH
2021-01-02 15:11 ` Sadanand Warrier
2021-01-03 17:58 Sadanand Warrier
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