Re: What is fixmaps?

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Hi

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Steven Zhou <lullaby2005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>sounds like "fixed mapping"..... area defined somewhere inside vmalloc
>
> Are you sure it's used in vmalloc?

Uhm I mean, in VMALLOC_RESERVED area (IIRC that's the name), it's the
upper 128 MB virtual address range of kernel memory space... This area
is created for many needs...one of them, again IIRC ...is for fix
mapping.

Please read ULVM for detailed info...

regards,

Mulyadi.

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