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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@caip.rutgers.edu>
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   From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
   Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 23:24:40 -0500 (EST)

   That's the reason that we don't do it.

Don't you have to setup some sort of mapping to get at vfs pages
during (for example) a read/write? (so this essentially is
pre-faulting the page, avoiding the trap, and I imagine you then tear
down the mapping after the operation is complete?)