Re: using kmalloc

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 11:41:36 EST


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
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