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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:15:15 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Thomas Schlichter wrote:

> I want to create a big area of unswappable, physical continuous kernel memory
> for hardware testing purposes. Currently I allocate the memory using
> alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order) and after this I pin it using
> SetPageReserved(page) for each page.

Kernel memory is never swappable, so there is no need to "pin it".


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