From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:56:33 -0500 From: Marco Cova Subject: Re: Differences between VM structs Message-ID: <20030908175632.GA13420@smith.cs.ucsb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030908182138.GH29479@holomorphy.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:21:38AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:26:59AM -0700, Kirk True wrote: > > 4. Can you state a succint/brief comparison of the difference > > between kmalloc, malloc, and vmalloc with usage examples of each? > > No. Maybe this can be helpful: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch07.html Also, check out this link for a description of mmap: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch13.html HTH, Marco -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org