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Finding out whether memory was allocated with kmalloc or vmalloc

DISCUSSION Michael Bellion 2 participants 2 messages Aug 27, 2002

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Hi,

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?

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Quoted 3 lines · Michael Bellion

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