On Monday 11 October 2004 10:50, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: > but the address returned by kmalloc is also a virtual address right?? > it's only that kmalloc gives a continuous chunk of mem. as compared > to vmalloc The addresses returned by both kmalloc() and vmalloc() are contiguous in the virtual space. The difference is that kmalloc() addresses are also contiguous in physical memory. -- Regards, Kiran Kumar Immidi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
