Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 14:20:56 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why does kern_lkm.c use kmem_alloc()? Message-ID: <9503202120.AA03028@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9503201937.AA27595@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Mar 20, 95 02:37:27 pm
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> Can anybody explain why kern_lkm.c uses kmem_alloc() to allocate > memory rather than malloc()? Is it just because of the kernel > malloc()'s size limit? (I'd really like for it to use malloc so that > I could tell how much memory is occupied by LKMs from `vmstat -m'.) Contiguous driver buffer space for DMA target. It can use plain malloc for the structures for the list of allocated devices, etc. with no trouble, however. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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