On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:25:01 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [off-list ref] wrote:

+void lock_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area)
+{
+	unsigned long i;
+	char c;
+
+	/*
+	 * Prevent context switch to a lazy mm that doesn't have this area
+	 * mapped into its page tables.
+	 */
+	preempt_disable();
+
+	/*
+	 * Ensure that the page tables are mapped into the current mm. The
+	 * page-fault path will copy the page directory pointers from init_mm.
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < area->size; i += PAGE_SIZE)
+		(void)__get_user(c, (char __user *)area->addr + i);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lock_vm_area);

This won't work when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.  The pagefault handler will see
in_atomic() and will scram.

(pet-peeve-from-someone-who-remembers-fortran: the reader expects the
variable `i' to be signed.  signed int really)