Re: kernel memory swap..

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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Imran Badr wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> If I allocate some memory using kmalloc() in the linux device driver and
> will it ever be swapped to hard disk? If yes, then how can I lock the page?
>
> Thanks,
> Imran.

Nope. It's locked into the kernel and won't go away until you kfree() it.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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