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Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:32:41 +0000
From:	"Pan, Weimin" <weimin.pan@...com>
To:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Why  get_user_pages fails?

I booted the kernel and set "mem=512M" and then mmapped the physical memory above 512M to user space and got the user space virtual address for that memory.
When I passed that address to my driver to do direct IO. The get_user_pages() in my driver fails. I found that this is due to the VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP are set. Does that mean the page structures are not built when I mmapped physical memory to user space (using remap_pfn_range())?

Do I have a way to solve this problem? How can I map the physical memory to user space virtual address and can pass this address to my driver to do direct IO by using get_user_pages() function?

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