Re: Does kmalloc always return address below 4GB?

From: Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 21:28:09 EST


>From: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com>
[...]
>This is sort of the same question I have, the only problem you will
>have here is that vmalloc() will
>return only _virtual_ contiguous pages [...]

        In my example, you can assume the amount of memory
being allocated fits into a single page. I was not talking
about issues related to crossing page boundaries.

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