Thomas Petazzoni (thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > Hi, > > Le Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:44:45 +0530, > "Rajat Jain" <rajat.noida.india@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > > Does that mean that a kmalloc'ed chunk of memory will never be swapped > > out? Or does it only apply to statically allocated memory? > > Yes, a kmalloc()'ed chunk of memory will never be swapped. Hi, Perhaps I will say a big mistake, but that you say is true for GFP_KERNEL, GFP_ATOMIC, ... (kernel memory), but for GFP_USER is this already true ? I don't think, but if you could clear it to me, you are welcome. Regards, Christophe -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
