Hello,
I wanted to know the difference between vmalloc and kmalloc. I
understand the following,
1. kmalloc allocations are physically contiguous whereas vmalloc
allocations may not be.
2. kmalloc allocations have a size limit of 128KB (I am not sure of the
size limitations of vmalloc)
3. vmalloc allocations can sleep and hence should not be used in an
interrupt context unlike kmalloc
Do put in your comments especially the allocation size limitations..
Thanks,
Sanjay Acharya
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