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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: chiranjeevi vaka <cvaka_kernel@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: using kmalloc
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:41:36 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319164136.GN20602@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020319161831.80877.qmail@web21306.mail.yahoo.com>

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.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-19 16:33 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 [this message]
2002-03-19 17:30   ` yodaiken
     [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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