Vijay Subramanian (vijaynarananan@yahoo.com) wrote: > Hi friends, > > Can anyone explain the difference between kmalloc and vmalloc? > my understanding is as follows; > > kmalloc allocates memory from the kernel addr space.i.e allocates memory from what has already been given to the kernel? > what does vmalloc do differently (since it uses kmalloc .)? > > > thanks in advance.all help is appreciated. > vijay > http://linux-study.cs.ccu.edu.tw/ldd2nd/ch07.html#t1 sould help you to understand this ;-) -- Cordialement/Regards +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Christophe Lucas -- IOMEDA SA (clucas@iomeda.fr) | | Developpeur/Administrateur GNU/Linux | +-------------------------------------------------------+ | http://titux.tuxfamily.org -- Registered User #271267 | +-------------------------------------------------------+ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
