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Re: vmalloc!
- To: Nicu Popovici <octavp at isratech dot ro>
- Subject: Re: vmalloc!
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:46:39 +0000
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <3A71F6F3.5F463D95@isratech.ro>
Nicu Popovici wrote:-
> if this questions is not apropriate to this list please redirect me to
> the one which is.
> sorry if I will bother you.
>
> I do not know what means "vmalloc" function in Linux and I do not know
> what it does ?
> I do not have also man on this function , I have to install some othre
> package in order to have help for this funtion or not ?
I think you'll find vmalloc is a kernel-internal function for
allocating kernel virtual memory.
The linux-kernel list is a more appropriate place for this question.
Neil.