If it's a small amount of memory, you shloud use the slab allocator (function kmalloc or kmem_cache_alloc) and if the moemory you want to allocate is bigger (bigger than a page = 4kB), you should use __get_free_pages() for better performance.How can I allocate physically contiguous memory in kernel space( for some device driver)
regds SSA
have a look at this link to understand the vm of linux :
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/html/understand/node1.html
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