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VM_INSERT_PAGE(9) Memory Management in Linux VM_INSERT_PAGE(9)

NAME

vm_insert_page - insert single page into user vma

SYNOPSIS

int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct * vma, unsigned long addr, struct page * page);

ARGUMENTS

vma
user vma to map to
addr
target user address of this page
page
source kernel page

DESCRIPTION

This allows drivers to insert individual pages they've allocated into a user vma.
The page has to be a nice clean _individual_ kernel allocation. If you allocate a compound page, you need to have marked it as such (__GFP_COMP), or manually just split the page up yourself (see split_page).
NOTE! Traditionally this was done with " remap_pfn_range" which took an arbitrary page protection parameter. This doesn't allow that. Your vma protection will have to be set up correctly, which means that if you want a shared writable mapping, you'd better ask for a shared writable mapping!
The page does not need to be reserved.
Usually this function is called from f_op-> mmap handler under mm->mmap_sem write-lock, so it can change vma->vm_flags. Caller must set VM_MIXEDMAP on vma if it wants to call this function from other places, for example from page-fault handler.

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May 2018 Kernel Hackers Manual 3.16