Hi there all, first of all I am writing a kernel module to handle some device using; uname -a: Linux localhost 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Sun Jun 28 02:52:23 EEST 2009 i686 AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux. During the init phase of the module I allocate some memory via kmalloc() in the following manner; omm_dev_buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA | GFP_ATOMIC); if (!omm_dev_buffer) { return -ENOMEM; } clear_buffer (omm_dev_buffer, PAGE_SIZE); printk("omm_dev_init: kmalloc'ed omm_dev_buffer OK\n"); omm_messages = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); printk ("dev_buff @ 0x%x messages @ 0x%x\n",omm_dev_buffer,omm_messages); if (!omm_messages) { kfree(omm_dev_buffer); /* failing at this point means that the other allocation succeeded */ return -ENOMEM; } clear_buffer (omm_messages, PAGE_SIZE); where clear_buffer is just a wrapper for memset. My problem is that the two consecutive memory allocation operations return the same memory space (both pointers point the same address). If I change the malloc'ed size ie PAGE_SIZE*2 then the process works as expected. kzalloc behaves the same way, while alloc_page with the same flags(i.e. alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA | GFP_ATOMIC) ) return a different memory space and works as expected. What am I missing here? Thank's in advance :D Nikos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs