vmap(9)

vmap9

Map an array of pages into virtually contiguous space

Usage

void * vmap(struct page ** pages, unsigned int count, unsigned long flags, pgprot_t prot);

Arguments

pages

array of page pointers

count

number of pages to map

flags

vm_area->flags

prot

page protection for the mapping

Overview

Maps count pages from pages into contiguous kernel virtual space.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

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