DMA memory allocation

qiao guopei qiaogp@krdl.org.sg
Sun Aug 13 20:59:00 GMT 2000


Wether the memories allocated by kmalloc or get_free_pages could be
swapped out? In the book "linux device drivers", some drivers use the
memory allocated by kmalloc or get_free_pages for DMA. There will be
some problems if the memory could be swapped out. Could someone explain
this?

Thanks,
Guopei



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