From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Finney, Steve" <Steve.Finney@SpirentCom.COM>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: kmalloc question
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:09:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031009080940.GC19372@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DC1BF43A8FAE654DA6B3FB7836DD3A56DEB76D@iris.adtech-inc.com>
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:06:50PM -1000, Finney, Steve wrote:
> Is kmalloc (GFP_KERNEL) on a 32 bit HIGHMEM enabled MIPS kernel (BCM/Sibyte processor) guaranteed to allocate memory from the low, KSEG0/1 addressible region? I'm having trouble sorting through the slab.c code. On this processor, only 256 MB of DRAM is directly addressible; with more than 256 MB of RAM, there is 256 MB in zone 0, and the remainder in zone 2. Zone 1 is empty.
Yes.
Ralf
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2003-10-09 1:06 kmalloc question Finney, Steve
2003-10-09 1:06 ` Finney, Steve
2003-10-09 8:09 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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2002-06-05 5:25 Andre.Messerschmidt
2002-06-05 17:24 ` Alan Cox
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