I will try kmap/kunmap later.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Geraint,
There is a certain amount (exact amount depends on the architecture
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Geraint Yang <geraint0923@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> Thank you for your help !
> Does it mean that I could use all of the memory my computer has? But one of
> my classmates told me that kernel could only use 1G from a 4G
> memory.computer...Is there anything I have misunderstood ?
and configuration) that can be accessed directly all of the time.
Then there is high memory, which can be accessed using kmap/kunmap.
See http://linux-mm.org/HighMemory
If you have a 64-bit system, then you can access all of the memory directly.
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Geraint Yang
Tsinghua University Department of Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University Department of Computer Science and Technology
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