Sharing data between user space and kernel

Aziz KEZZOU aziz_kezzou at yahoo.fr
Sat Feb 26 07:26:47 GMT 2005


>sleeping().  What you probably want to do is
>actually allocate wired kernel pages and export them
to >userspace.  Take a
>look at the GEOM gstat(8) implementation, which does
>exactly that. 
>However, you have to make sure that if you ever
decide >to reuse that
>kernel memory for something else (i.e., free it back
to >the allocator),
>you've GC'd all userspace references to it. 


Could you please point me to the place where "GEOM
gstat" is implemented ? I don't seem to find it :-(

Thanks a lot,
neo 



	

	
		
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