Re: mmap and multiple memory chucks allocated by kmalloc()

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2004-11-27 at 00:04, lan mu wrote:
> Can I use the kmalloc to allocate 5 memory chucks
> (4096*30) and then use remap_page_range() to map those
> 5 chucks one by one? it not seems to work. Anyone can
> tell me if it's feasible? or I have to use vmalloc?

If they don't need to be linear you can allocate individual pages and
use a do_no_page function. See the sound/oss/via82cxxx driver

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