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Re: kmalloc usage question

What i want to know if i write a Device driver that
has kmalloc statements require allocate some string
variable then which flag i should use?

If you are not running in interrupt context, either GFP_KERNEL or GFP_USER should be ok. IIRC the difference between them is that GFP_USER has lower priority and cannot access highmem.

--Swapnil

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