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Subject: Re: kernel memory swap..
From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
To: imran.badr@cavium.com
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On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 20:57, Imran Badr wrote:
> 
> 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?

AFAIK, kmalloced memory is never swapped.

Gilad.

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