follow_pfn(9)

follow_pfn9

Look up pfn at a user virtual address

Usage

int follow_pfn(struct vm_area_struct * vma, unsigned long address, unsigned long * pfn);

Arguments

vma

memory mapping

address

user virtual address

pfn

location to store found PFN

Overview

Only IO mappings and raw PFN mappings are allowed.

Returns zero and the pfn at pfn on success, -ve otherwise.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.