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Hello,
what about using contigmalloc(9), there you can specify
alignment and boundary.

HTH, 
Marc

>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
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