From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
To: "T. Camp" <campt@openmars.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mutliple root devs (take II)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:04:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012020104.UAA05273@ccure.karaya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Dec 2000 15:35:05 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012011529070.4856-100000@magic.skylab.org>
campt@openmars.com said:
> I was unsure if it was okay to be using kmalloc during early stages of
> init/main.c so I decided to follow the example allready set and just
> use a static array - can anyone advise on being able to do this
> dynamically?
kmalloc is usable after mem_init(), I think. Before that, you can use the
boot memory allocator (see mm/bootmem.c). In the arch that I'm most familiar
with (arch/um), that is usable from the beginning of start_kernel. I don't
know about the other arches.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-02 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-01 16:49 T. Camp
2000-12-01 16:57 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-01 17:05 ` T. Camp
2000-12-01 17:14 ` Olivier Galibert
2000-12-01 17:16 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-01 22:35 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-01 22:44 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-01 23:35 ` T. Camp
2000-12-01 23:49 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-02 1:04 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2000-12-02 2:17 ` Philipp Rumpf
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