From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:22:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:22:42 -0500 Received: from web14505.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.224.68]:3344 "HELO web14505.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:22:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20021202013005.11343.qmail@web14505.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:30:05 -0800 (PST) From: Arun Prasad Velu Subject: Allocating huge memeory in loadable kernel module To: linux-kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I need 200 to 500 32k buffers in my device driver, which is a lodable kernel module. get_free_pages failing to allocate these many buffers. My requirement is the all these 32k buffers should be contiguous physical memory and I need a minimum of 200 such buffers. I'd like to know how to get get these many buffers (physically contigous) for a loadable kernel module. Have a nice time. Regards Arun __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com