On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 04:58:06AM -0400, Anoop P.A. wrote: > Ralf, > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > allocated with same prefix. In another words all the buffers should > be > > > below < 0x1fff_ffff ( physical address) or between 0x2000_0000 and > > > 0x3fff_ffff like that. > > > > > > Is there any way to force kmalloc to allocate memory in certain > region > > > or below some region? > > > > Nothing that would uniformly work for 32-bit and 64-bit kernels and > also > > Linux only has flags that allocate below certain addresses; nothing > that > > tells the allocator "give me something between 0x20000000 and > 0x3fffffff". > > > > Ralf > [Anoop P.A.] You mean there are some flags available to force kmalloc to > allocate memory below some address? I couldn't find one in kmalloc man > pages. > Ralf said "nothing". My reading is that such a flag is _not_ available. Guenter
