* How to revoke mmap mappings
@ 2006-08-10 16:50 ralphc
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From: ralphc @ 2006-08-10 16:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
I am looking for suggestions on how a device driver which implements
mmap() similar to the "scullv" example driver can revoke the
mapping. I would like the driver to be able to invalidate
all of the pages faulted in through struct vm_operations_struct.nopage
so that the vmalloc() memory can be freed. If the user process
tries to touch the mmap region afterwards, it will get a SIGBUS
or SIGSEGV.
I looked in mm/memory.c but unmap_mapping_range() and
vmtruncate() require file mappings so I don't think I
can use these.
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