Re: A hole in kernel space!

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 16:07:07 EST

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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

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