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Re: Simple question about vmalloc()

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:02, Curran, Dominic wrote:

> If I allocate virtual memory in the kernel using vmalloc(), can I read/write
> to this virtual memory from interrupt context ?

Yes.

> i.e. can the memory returned from vmalloc() be paged out (thus making it
> page fault when accessed from interrupt context).

No.

	Robert Love


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