RE: Finding out whether memory was allocated with kmalloc or vmal

[Luck, Tony]

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?

Try:
	#include <linux/mm.h>

	if (PageSlab(virt_to_page(p)) {
		/* this was allocated by mm/slab.c */
	} else {
		/* it wasn't ... may vmalloc'ed? */
	}

-Tony