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RE:Memory allocation questions

To: Jorge Gonzalez <jorgegv@arrakis.es>
Cc: 
From: David Murn <scuffer@hups.apana.org.au>
Date: 	Sun, 13 Jul 1997 01:27:42 +1000 (EST)
Newsgroups: linux.dev.8086

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Jorge Gonzalez wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 dg@emarkt.com wrote:
> 
> : In fact, I
> : can't recall ever seeing a kernel-space memory allocation routine...
> 
> Well, have you read the Linux Kernel Hacker's Guide? It talks about a
> kmalloc() function (in BigLinux) which does just that, in 4k chunks. A bit
> primitive, but it's a kernel malloc...

I mean, I found the function.  It's called mm_malloc, but no-where in the
source does this function get called.  Is it just me, or is this really
not being used.  And if it's not being used, what the hell is?

Davey

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