Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:58:38 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: kmalloc() allocation. |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:11:29AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > > This was just changed in 2.4 so that vmalloced pages are faulted in on > > demand. > > Could you explain how it handles the vmalloc() -- vfree() -- vmalloc() of same > virtual space but different physical race ?
As far as I can tell (I didn't write the code), vfree didn't change. It's only vmalloc that's lazy now.
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