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temporary mapping

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Created May 12 2008 - 09:29

The reason why kernel maps HIGH MEMORY to zone_normal because of kernel's limited addressing capability.
so the question is in what all situations kernel maps high memory to ZONE_NORMAL ?
is it when process requests more memory ? or kernel wans more memory ? or what else ?


Source URL:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/16120