Re: kernel memory swap..

From: Gilad Ben-Yossef (gilad@benyossef.com)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 18:19:43 EST

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On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 20:57, Imran Badr wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> If I allocate some memory using kmalloc() in the linux device driver and
> will it ever be swapped to hard disk? If yes, then how can I lock the page?

AFAIK, kmalloced memory is never swapped.

Gilad.

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