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From: "Imran Badr" <imran.badr@cavium.com>
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Subject: kernel memory swap..
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:57:26 -0700
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Hi,

If I allocate some memory using kmalloc() in the linux device driver and
will it ever be swapped to hard disk? If yes, then how can I lock the page?

Thanks,
Imran.

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