--- "Curran, Dominic" <dcurran@ti.com> wrote: > If I allocate virtual memory in the kernel using > vmalloc(), can I read/write > to this virtual memory from interrupt context ? > > i.e. can the memory returned from vmalloc() be paged > out (thus making it > page fault when accessed from interrupt context). AFAIK, kernel memory is not swapped out. So it can be safely used from interrupt context. ===== Regards, Kiran Kumar Immidi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
