kernel address mapping question

Chuck Tuffli ctuffli at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 11:28:06 PST 2006


Is there a 1:1 mapping between physical addresses and kernel virtual
addresses? Or said a different way, can 2 kernel virtual addresses map
to the same physical address? Does the answer differ depending on
whether malloc(9) or bus_dmamem_alloc(9) are used? TIA.

---chuck






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