On 13/04/07, yogeshwar sonawane <yogyas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all, I have one doubt, whether memory allocated by kmalloc()/get_free_pages() is swappable? Both these functions allocate physical memory. The physical addresses can be given to any peripheral device to do dma on these buffers. So these buffers has to reside in memory always. OR is there any need to lock the pages of the buffer returned by kmalloc/get_free_pages to make it reside in main memory forever?
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