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## memcpy error?

  Forum: Device Drivers
  Keywords: memcpy verify_area
  Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 14:33:34 GMT
  From: Edgar Vonk <edgar@it.et.tudelft.nl>

I am using memcpy in a device driver to copy data between to buffers in kernel space (one is a DMA buffer) and I keep getting segmentation faults I can't explain. I changed the driver since and now it copies the DMA buffer directly into user space with memcpy_tofs (and verify_area) and this seems to work just fine. Anyone know why? Does this have to do with the memcpy faults under heavy system load? I saw a discussion and a kernel patch about this somewhere. thanks, (running i586-linux-2.0.30-RedHat4.1)