Re: kmalloc() allocation.

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 03:44:45 EST

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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:11:29AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> This was just changed in 2.4 so that vmalloced pages are faulted in on
> demand.

Could you explain how it handles the vmalloc() -- vfree() -- vmalloc() of same
virtual space but different physical race ?

-Andi
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