Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765199AbZAQC5H (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:57:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752392AbZAQC4x (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:56:53 -0500 Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:47669 "EHLO kuber.nabble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752249AbZAQC4x (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:56:53 -0500 Message-ID: <21512362.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:56:52 -0800 (PST) From: sidc7 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Kernel vs user memory MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: siddhartha.chhabra@gmail.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 16 The kernel maintains a free list of pages that are free in physical memory. I was wondering, are these pages in the kernel space ? They are not mapped to any of the user address space for sure, so will they be in the kernel memory ? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Kernel-vs-user-memory-tp21512362p21512362.html Sent from the linux-kernel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/