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On Monday 31 May 2004 5:49 am, Shobhit Mathur wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know whether kmalloc() guarantees
> virtually contiguous memory locations ?
> Is there a limit on the amount of contiguous memory
> that can be returned by kmalloc() ?
First, kmalloc returns physically contiguous memory.
second, the limit (on x86) is 128kb (32 pages), allocatable in powers of two
pages. (1,2,4,8,16,32. often called 0-order thru 5-order allocations)

vmalloc returns virtual contiguous allocations, with no guarantee on physical
contiguity. The problem with vmalloc, iirc, is that there's a [total] limit
of 128MB for vmallocs.

Also remember that all kernel memory allocated with vmalloc() or kmalloc() is
non-swappable.

I don't know how this changes under any other architecture, such as x86-64 or
PPC32/64.
>
> - Thank you
>
> - Shobhit Mathur

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