From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@coritel.it>
To: Misbah khan <misbah_khan@engineer.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: how to allocate 9MB of memory in kernel ?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:51:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487EFA1E.8060804@coritel.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18503022.post@talk.nabble.com>
Misbah khan ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> Please share your experience in this regard .
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> ----Misbah <><
You can use the mem option to tell to the kernel that you've got less
ram you really have. However you can read Linux device drivers chapter 8
"Obtaining Large Buffers" :).
Regards,
--
Marco Stornelli
Embedded Software Engineer
CoRiTeL - Consorzio di Ricerca sulle Telecomunicazioni
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 7:49 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 [this message]
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
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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