From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kmalloc() and page sizes
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:38:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805810@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805788@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:09:11 +0100, Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de> said:
Christian> David, the storage I need for my driver has to be mapped
Christian> by the 64MB kernel page. The alloc_pages() gives me pages
Christian> with virtual addresses outside the kernel mapped
Christian> page. Since kmalloc() gives storage at natural alignment
Christian> this call is perfect to overlay the storage with an
Christian> additional mapping with 256KB page size.
The page allocator returns memory in the identity mapped kernel
segment, just like kmalloc(). In fact, kmalloc() is implemented on
top of the page allocator. Also, the page allocator uses the buddy
system, so the memory is aligned according to the allocation order.
--david
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-11 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-10 10:18 [Linux-ia64] kmalloc() and page sizes Christian Hildner
2002-01-10 19:56 ` David Mosberger
2002-01-11 12:09 ` Christian Hildner
2002-01-11 16:38 ` David Mosberger [this message]
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