Vmalloc

[Prabhunath G]

vmalloc() may allocate non-contiguous physical memory and map it to
contiguous kernel virtual address.

For eg. if you ask for 10 page frames of physical memory i.e. 10 * 4K,
vmalloc() will scout for 10 page frames of physical memory, they need not
be contiguous,
and map them to contiguous kernel virtual address (last 128 MB of virtual
address in a 3G/1G partition, assuming >= 1GB of RAM)

 This could be of some help and is also somewhat extension of your question
https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2011-June/002335.html


On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Er Krishna <erkrishna at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hi all
> >
> > I have one confusion, so asking this question for understanding:
> >
> > Vmalloc return address are virtually contiguous or not ?
> >
> > Basically vmalloc return non contiguous memory from ram which may not be
> one to one mapped in process kernel address space .
> >
> > Is my above understanding correct?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Krishna
>
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Regards,
Prabhunath G
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