centos man page for vm_insert_page

Query: vm_insert_page

OS: centos

Section: 9

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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.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 VM_INSERT_PAGE(9)
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