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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: how to allocate 9MB of memory in kernel ?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:56:51 +0200
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On Thursday 17 July 2008, Misbah khan wrote:
> I need to allocate 9 MB of memory in to the kernel space which i need to
> mmap for the application to access.
> 
> I need to know what could be the best possible way of doing the same.
> 

If you don't need the memory to be physically contiguous, you can use
vmalloc to get the memory, but then you need to use remap_vmalloc_range
for mapping the memory into a user address space.

	Arnd <><