Not exactly, vmalloc'ed addresses can generate page faults.
vmalloc'ed page entries live in kernel master page table, not in
every process' page table. When a vmalloc page fault occurs,
kernel simply copy the page table entry from master page table to
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Pages allocated via vmalloc call won't generate page-faults.On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Manavendra Nath Manav
<mnm.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 10-Sep-2014 6:24 pm, <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:45:23 +0530, Manavendra Nath Manav said:
>>
>> > But if the total RAM is limited (less than 896MB LOWMEM), for example as
>> > in
>> > embedded devices how the kernel code be kept in RAM all the time. Am I
>> > correct to assume that the kernel pre-fetches all pages when entering
>> > kernel mode from user mode?
>>
>> No, kernel code is loaded by your boot loader, and *it stays there*.
>> Similarly,
>> if you modprobe something, the kernel allocates the page, loads the code,
>> and leaves it there.
>>
>> Particularly in embedded devices, where you know all the modules the
>> kernel may
>> need, it's common to just create a kernel with everything built in, no
>> module
>> support, and when the system boots, it loads into memory and never moves
>> again.
>>
>
> Linux kernel memory is not page-able, but memory allocated through vmalloc
> can still cause page fault. How device drivers using vmalloc handle this?
>
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