Re: kmalloc

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
27 Jan 1999 15:22:24 +0100


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

|> > 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.
|>
|> Thats vmalloc. If you have an architecture where kmalloc blocks are
|> not linear to the I/O devices

m68k.

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