Dear Ravi, MegaTHX for Your answer. On 12 Sep 2002 at 9:55, Ravi wrote: > > 1. Can I use the page I allocated by using __alloc_bootmem() > > function later on? Or should I free the allocated chunk as soon as > > the normal caching system is functional (after copying to the > > original content :-). > > You can continue using memory allocated with alloc_bootmem(). Pages > allocated by the bootmem allocator are marked reserved so that they > are not on the free list. (More accurately: all pages are marked > reserved first, and the 'reserved' flag isn't cleared for those pages > allocated by bootmem). How can I make this allocated memory non cached? Do I have to do anything? TIA && Good byte! -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
