From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: "Marc A. Volovic" <marc@bard.org.il>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
Pannaga Bhushan <bhushan@multitech.co.in>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A hole in kernel space!
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:07:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021106210707.GD19580@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021106160934.GA25325@glamis.bard.org.il>
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:09:34PM +0200, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
>
> I do not alloc/dealloc every time ;-). I allocate at boot and do not
> bother deallocating at all. The module just uses that allocated memory
> and maps it into the filesystem namespace.
>...
Read pages 221-223 in
Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet. Linux device drivers.
O'Reilly, second edition, 2001. Online version:
http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
cu
Adrian
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-06 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-06 11:57 Pannaga Bhushan
2002-11-06 12:02 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-11-06 12:19 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-11-06 13:49 ` Marc A. Volovic
2002-11-06 14:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-06 16:09 ` Marc A. Volovic
2002-11-06 21:07 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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