From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>,
chiranjeevi vaka <cvaka_kernel@yahoo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: using kmalloc
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:30:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319103022.A17491@hq.fsmlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020319161831.80877.qmail@web21306.mail.yahoo.com> <20020319164136.GN20602@conectiva.com.br>
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:41:36PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:18:31AM -0800, chiranjeevi vaka escreveu:
>
> > I am getting some problems with kmalloc. If I tried to allocate more than
> > certain memory then the system is hanging while booting with the changed
> > kernel. Can you suggest me how to come out this situation. Can't I allocate
> > as much I want when I want to allocate in the kernel.
>
> try vmalloc, kmalloc is limited, AFAIK, to 128 KiB and even that is difficult
> to get after some time.
Apparently, kmalloc semantics changed at some point
so it does not ever return error.
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Victor Yodaiken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-19 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-19 16:18 chiranjeevi vaka
2002-03-19 16:41 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-03-19 17:30 ` yodaiken [this message]
[not found] <OFD9F443C5.CB1A619A-ON88256B81.005F0AD1@boulder.ibm.com>
2002-03-19 19:26 ` chiranjeevi vaka
2002-03-19 19:38 ` Tommy Reynolds
[not found] <fa.l19uvvv.1hjmo8t@ifi.uio.no>
2002-03-20 5:53 ` Dan Maas
2002-03-20 10:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-20 11:48 ` Jan Hudec
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