From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.8-rc3 redboot.c tries to kmalloc 256K
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:58:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091915937.1438.103.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040807135056.C2805@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 13:50 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With 2.6.8-rc3, I'm unable to mount the jffs2 root filesystem on one of
> my test systems. The system uses redboot, so has a redboot partition
> table. However, the kernel was not detecting the table.
>
> After prodding about for a while, I've found that redboot.c seems to
> be trying to kmalloc 256K of memory. The largest size that kmalloc
> supports is 128K on MMUfull systems.
We can switch to vmalloc().
--
dwmw2
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2004-08-07 12:50 Russell King
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