From: Brian Pomerantz <bapper@piratehaven.org>
To: Rick Richardson <rick@remotepoint.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:17:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010117121719.A29786@skull.piratehaven.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010117135420.A3536@remotepoint.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010117135420.A3536@remotepoint.com>; from rick@remotepoint.com on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:54:20PM -0600
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:54:20PM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote:
>
> [please cc me on any responses]
>
> Environment: 2.4.0 released, Pentium III with 256MB's of RAM.
> Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542"
>
The most you can kmalloc() is 128KB unless this has changed in the 2.4
kernel which I doubt. If you want a region of memory that large, use
vmalloc(). Of course, this doesn't guarantee a contiguous region.
BAPper
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-17 19:54 Rick Richardson
2001-01-17 20:17 ` Brian Pomerantz [this message]
2001-01-17 20:39 ` Timur Tabi
2001-01-18 5:11 ` Hans Grobler
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