Re: Pinning kernel memory

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 15:15:15 EST

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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Thomas Schlichter wrote:

> I want to create a big area of unswappable, physical continuous kernel memory
> for hardware testing purposes. Currently I allocate the memory using
> alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order) and after this I pin it using
> SetPageReserved(page) for each page.

Kernel memory is never swappable, so there is no need to "pin it".

Rik

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