what is the difference between kmalloc and vmalloc?

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:12 AM, horse_rivers <horse_rivers at 126.com> wrote:
> thanks!

kmalloc allocates memory from slab cache. It tends to be physically
contigous and you can get memory size smaller than page size.

vmalloc, on the other hand, is when you need only virtually contigous
memory area. Example of such usage is for allocating memory to load
kernel module.

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