Re: where does vmlist be initiated?

[Neil Booth <NeilB@earthling.net>]

Wang Yong wrote:-
> hi,
>   i found this structure is defined in mm/vmalloc.c :
>   "static struct vm_struct * vmlist = NULL;"
> 
>   it appears that vmlist be initiated as null. but in function
> get_vm_area(), which is called by kmalloc(), it doesn't work if vmlist is
> null. so i think vmlist must be initiated somewhere else. but where? thx

Hi Wang,

There's only 3 lines that reference it in vmalloc.c, so it
shouldn't be too hard to figure out, no?

Neil.
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