Re: kmalloc

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
27 Jan 1999 11:35:48 +0100


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:

|> > Is kmalloc guaranteed to alloc a physically contigous buffer? My exact
|>
|> Yes

No. It is only contiguous in the kernel virtual space.

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