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Submitted by Anonymous
on May 24, 2008 - 10:25pm

1) the addressed returned by Vmalloc() is mapped by kernel in user space (user page tables), right ? it is never a part of kernel page table, correct ?
2) and vice versa is true for kmap().. right ?

please correct me if I am wrong.

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Both vmalloc and kmap are

Anonymous (not verified)
on
May 25, 2008 - 2:44am

Both vmalloc and kmap are for in-kernel use only.

would you please reply to

Anonymous (not verified)
on
May 25, 2008 - 6:28am

would you please reply to another thread named 'alloc pages' ?

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