Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 1999 04:48:55 -0800 | From | David Miller <> | Subject | Re: Address spaces on a i386 - Getting Confused |
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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.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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