Re: kmalloc() allocation.

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 07:58:38 EST

Next message: Rik van Riel: "Re: kmalloc() allocation."
Previous message: Frank van Maarseveen: "2.4.0-test10-pre7: lockup in AHA-2940A initialization"
In reply to: Andi Kleen: "Re: kmalloc() allocation."
Next in thread: kernel@kvack.org: "Re: kmalloc() allocation."
Reply: kernel@kvack.org: "Re: kmalloc() allocation."
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> 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 ?

As far as I can tell (I didn't write the code), vfree didn't change.
It's only vmalloc that's lazy now.

Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Rik van Riel: "Re: kmalloc() allocation."
Previous message: Frank van Maarseveen: "2.4.0-test10-pre7: lockup in AHA-2940A initialization"
In reply to: Andi Kleen: "Re: kmalloc() allocation."
Next in thread: kernel@kvack.org: "Re: kmalloc() allocation."
Reply: kernel@kvack.org: "Re: kmalloc() allocation."
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Oct 31 2000 - 21:00:29 EST