Re: Problem: 51MB partition max size on jffs2

Thomas Gleixner
2002-12-04T18:33:07Z

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
____________________________________________________
linutronix - competence in embedded & realtime linux
http://www.linutronix.de
mail: tglx@linutronix.de