Re: Could convert a buffer that allocated by vmalloc to pages?

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 21:04 +0800, Yu-Chen Wu wrote:
> Hi,
> I write a driver have a big buffer (16MB,allocated by vmalloc).
> I want to use the buffer to do DMA transmission so I need getting the pages
> of the buffer.
> Have any kernel API can do this?
> My platform is x86_64 and 2GB RAM

vmalloc_to_page()...

See mm/memory.c for the function and how to use it.

Best regards,

        Anton
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