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>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

Andreas> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
|> Thats vmalloc. If you have an architecture where kmalloc blocks are
|> not linear to the I/O devices

Andreas> m68k.

Yes but even then we do not have a granularity of memory < 256KB
chunks which will cause this to happen so in practice at least
allocations of 256KB are guaranteed to be linear on the m68k and
kmalloc is limited to 128KB.

Jes

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