From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Cc: Misbah khan <misbah_khan@engineer.com>
Subject: Re: how to allocate 9MB of memory in kernel ?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:24:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807171024.02514.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18503765.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Misbah khan wrote:
> vmalloc can only allocate 128k i guess where in i need 9MB allocated when
> driver is inserted and would be released only when its removed. mapping to
> user space is not a concern
The 128kb limitation is in kmalloc, not vmalloc. The latter is
specifically meant to have no limitations on the memory size
(other than the available resources), at the expense of having
to create a new virtual mapping.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 7:26 how to allocate 9MB of memory in kernel ? Misbah khan
2008-07-17 7:51 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-17 8:34 ` Misbah khan
2008-07-17 9:04 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-17 7:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-07-17 8:19 ` Misbah khan
2008-07-17 8:24 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2008-07-18 4:44 ` Misbah khan
2008-07-18 6:50 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-18 8:48 ` Misbah khan
2008-07-18 14:57 ` Timur Tabi
2008-07-18 15:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-07-22 5:23 ` Misbah khan
2008-07-22 6:43 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-22 9:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-07-22 9:47 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-22 13:22 ` Misbah khan
2008-07-22 15:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-07-23 7:30 ` Misbah khan
2008-07-23 12:47 ` Alessandro Rubini
2008-07-24 8:33 ` Misbah khan
2008-07-24 9:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-07-25 8:43 ` Misbah khan
2008-07-25 8:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-02 19:13 ` harihanv
2008-07-17 8:02 ` Sylvain Joyeau
2008-07-17 8:41 ` Misbah khan
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2008-07-17 20:15 ` Siva Prasad
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