On 7/19/05, Martin Jambor <jamborm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> What about alloc_pages, is there any similar constraint (I need about
> half a megabyte)?
>
alloc_pages provides memory allocation in the form of pages which can
allocate pages according to the order provided, so you can get around
half MB or more easily ......
> And, BTW, is there any way of getting pointers to individual struct
> pages corresponding to memory obtained with vmalloc?
>
ya, of course you can get struct pages from the memory allocated by
vmalloc ..... look/use the macro defined in asm/page.h
virt_to_page(kaddr)
It actually gives you the pointer to page to which that virtual
address points to ...... but u might have to consider the offsets in
the page tooo for the first and last virtual address (that is the
12-bits of LSB)
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