EmbLogic » Navneet Sandhu https://www.emblogic.com/blog Embedded System and ARM Training Tue, 03 Mar 2020 13:00:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 difference between malloc() and kmalloc() https://www.emblogic.com/blog/12/difference-between-malloc-and-kmalloc/ https://www.emblogic.com/blog/12/difference-between-malloc-and-kmalloc/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2015 06:27:54 +0000 http://www.emblogic.com/blog/?p=13006 Continue reading →]]> Malloc can be called in user space as well as in kernel space.it allocates physically fragmented memory area .It doesnot actually allocate physical memory.Physical memory can be mapped later.

Kmalloc can be called only in kernel space.it allocates physically contiguous memory chunk.
Memory allocated by kmalloc is reserved and locked,which cannot be swapped.

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