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Subject: how to do page level mem alloc in freebsd kernel?
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Hi,

I want to allocate one (or more) pages in kernel space.
I'm not sure what is the api in freebsd (something which
is similar to __get_free_pages() of linux).

Would malloc(4096, ...) guarantee that the returned
address is aligned on page boundary?

Thanks and regards,
-Kalash