On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:02, Curran, Dominic wrote: > If I allocate virtual memory in the kernel using vmalloc(), can I read/write > to this virtual memory from interrupt context ? Yes. > i.e. can the memory returned from vmalloc() be paged out (thus making it > page fault when accessed from interrupt context). No. Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/