From: Lyre <liyong@skybility.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: alloc memory for massive legacy ptys
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:08:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA94054.3030303@skybility.com> (raw)
Hi all:
In a rare condition, I need to alloc massive legacy ptys on SLES 9 SP4,
kernel 2.6.5-7.308-smp.
I noticed the limit number of legacy ptys was 10922, due to the kmalloc
128kb limit. 10922 * 3 * sizeof (void *) was 8 bytes lesser than 128kb
on 32bit system.
I tried to use vmalloc instead of kmalloc in tty_register_driver(). My
system was able to boot, but I'm not sure if it was safely to do this,
since vmalloc don't guarant the phy memory were contiguous, and I don't
know the pty driver memory requirements neither.
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