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

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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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