> I want to create a big area of unswappable, physical continuous kernel memory
> for hardware testing purposes. Currently I allocate the memory using
> alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order) and after this I pin it using
> SetPageReserved(page) for each page.
Kernel memory is never swappable, so there is no need to "pin it".
Rik
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