On Tue 08-12-15 18:25:31, Sebastian Frias wrote: > Hi, > > We are porting a driver from Linux 3.4.39+ to 4.1.13+, CPU is Cortex-A9. > > The driver maps kmalloc'ed memory to user space.
This sounds like a terrible idea to me. Why don't you simply use the page allocator directly? Try to imagine what would happen if you mmaped a kmalloc with a size which is not page aligned? mmaped memory uses whole page granularity. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
