Hi.. > I am using bigphysarea_alloc_pages funtion to allocate memory.This > funstion uses kmalloc..so i am getting block of memory that is > physically contigous. Big sorry. Yes, vmalloc() returns only virtually contigous memory block. regards, Mulyadi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/