As per the documentation(
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6930 ),
which says[emphasis mine]:
Unfortunately for kernel developers, allocating memory in the kernel
is not as simple as allocating memory in userspace. A number of
factors contribute to the complication, among them:
The kernel is limited to about 1GB of virtual and physical memory.
**The kernel's memory is not pageable.**
is not as simple as allocating memory in userspace. A number of
factors contribute to the complication, among them:
The kernel is limited to about 1GB of virtual and physical memory.
**The kernel's memory is not pageable.**
As per the documentation(https://www.oreilly.com
which says:
get_free_page and Friends
If a module needs to allocate big chunks of memory, it is usually
better to use a page-oriented technique.
I am confused after I have seen these two sayings.
I think they have the opposite meaning:
the former one clams that the kernel's memory is not pageable
whereas the latter one implicitly states there is
a page-oriented
technique used by the kernel(i.e. function
get_free_page
depends a page-oriented technique).
I have thought and thought about it for a long time, but I still don't
comprehend them.I would be grateful to have some help with this
question.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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