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SubjectRe: Access to non-RAM pages
On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 6:32 PM Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
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> Also, if we cross page boundaries with those guys then we have a bigger
> problem no ? we could fall off a vmalloc page into the nether or into
> an ioremap mapping no ?

It's not used for vmalloc stuff. It's just regular kmalloc().

So it can cross pages, and it can fall off the end of memory, but it
can't do random stuff.

Linus

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