From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Dave Ellis <DGE@sixnetio.com>
Cc: 'Ken Offer' <koffer@arlut.utexas.edu>,
"'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Problem: 51MB partition max size on jffs2
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 20:01:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212042001.08259.tglx@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14294.1039027619@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 19:46, David Woodhouse wrote:
> DGE@sixnetio.com said:
> > kmalloc() is limited to 128K and the 128MB Flash needs more than
> > twice that,
> >
> > so I tried vmalloc() and it seems to be OK (at least with PPC 2.4.18
> > patched for the new MTD code). Does anyone know if this change is
> > safe?
>
> You need to change the corresponding kfree() to vfree().
That's right. In actual CVS-code this problem is solved by building virtual
blocks of 2,4 or 8 physical blocks.
--
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-04 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-04 18:44 Problem: 51MB partition max size on jffs2 Dave Ellis
2002-12-04 18:46 ` David Woodhouse
2002-12-04 19:01 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2002-12-04 19:04 ` Charles Manning
2002-12-04 19:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-06 21:00 Dave Ellis
2002-12-04 20:58 Dave Ellis
2002-12-04 16:54 Ken Offer
2002-12-04 17:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-12-04 22:00 ` Ken Offer
2002-12-04 22:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-12-04 23:08 ` Ken Offer
2002-12-04 23:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-12-05 17:53 ` Ken Offer
2002-12-04 18:41 ` David Woodhouse
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