Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:54:39 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Address spaces on a i386 - Getting Confused |
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David Miller writes: > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:36:04 +1000 > From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> > > ??? Pages returned by kmalloc() or get_free_page() aren't > swappable. > > Brain fart, sorry. He will however have to make sure he free's up the > pages when the device is closed because the kernel isn't going to do > it during normal address space destruction.
Or perhaps that could be done in the unmap() vm_ops method?
Regards,
Richard....
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