Re: Address spaces on a i386 - Getting Confused
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:54:39 +1000
David Miller writes:
> 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.
Or perhaps that could be done in the unmap() vm_ops method?
Regards,
Richard....
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