Re: Address spaces on a i386 - Getting Confused

David Miller (davem@twiddle.net)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 04:48:55 -0800


Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:36:04 +1000
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>

??? Pages returned by kmalloc() or get_free_page() aren't
swappable.

Brain fart, sorry. He will however have to make sure he free's up the
pages when the device is closed because the kernel isn't going to do
it during normal address space destruction.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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