vmalloc_to_page is contiguous ?

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 12:55 +0200, Ranran wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does vmalloc_to_page() returns contiguous physical memory ?
> I ask becuase I see that its return value is used for DMA and DMA
> uses
> contiguous memory.
> see here:
> 
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/mtd/nand/onenand/samsung.c#L657
> Yet, in vmalloc_to_page implementation:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.5/source/mm/vmalloc.c#L234
> it does not seem that it creates a contiguous allocation.

That is correct, vmalloc_to_page does not create anything.

All it does is find (and return) the page address of
a single vmalloc address.

If you have a vmalloc buffer larger than PAGE_SIZE, you
will have to call vmalloc_to_page to find each individual
page.

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