On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> >
> > Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001030133720.3346A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
> > By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > >
> > > > 64K probably less. kmalloc allocates physically linear spaces. vmalloc will
> > > > happily grab you 2Mb of space but it will not be physically linear
> > > >
> > >
> > > Okay. Thanks.
> > >
> >
> > FWIW, vmalloc()-allocated pages are definitely pinned-down and
> > available to interrupts. However, you should keep in mind that the
> > vmalloc() call *itself* is quite expensive on SMP machines (have to
> > interrupt all CPUs and flush their TLBs!!) so if you're using
> > vmalloc(), be careful with the number of calls you make. Of course,
> > this is usually not a problem.
>
> This was just changed in 2.4 so that vmalloced pages are faulted in on
> demand.
what do you mean?! That is, of course, impossible because it would break
all existing software, so I won't even bother checking the code, safely
assuming that you perhaps meant something else, ok?
Thanks,
Tigran
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