Re: Finding out whether memory was allocated with kmalloc or vmalloc

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:15:54 +0200


On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:06:16AM +0200, Michael Bellion wrote:

> given a pointer p, is there an easy and platform independent way to find out,
> whether the memory location that p points to was allocated with kmalloc or
> vmalloc?

Vmalloc'ed memory has a virtual address VMALLOC_START <= x < VMALLOC_END.

Ralf
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