From: Alex Zeffertt <ajz@cambridgebroadband.com>
To: John Francis <johnfrancsis@yahoo.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Is there no vmalloc() for PPC kernel?
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:42:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BE17B78.79443EB1@cambridgebroadband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20011025093708.81325.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com
I've written a resident driver which calls vmalloc.
If you're writing a module which calls vmalloc you'll need to make sure EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc)
appears in
linux/arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/$(ARCH)_ksyms.c:
... otherwise insmod will fail.
Alex
John Francis wrote:
>
> I need to allocate more than page worth of memory in
> kernel. Some documentation that I looked at indicated
> I should be using vmalloc() , so I tried using it for
> PPC kernel and it couldn't find this symbol. Looked
> through the code ( 2.4.4 ) and I didn't see it.
>
> What is the best way to allocate "fairly" large memory
> pool for use within the kernel by the driver?
>
> John
>
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2001-10-25 9:37 Is there no vmalloc() for PPC kernel? John Francis
2001-11-01 16:42 ` Alex Zeffertt [this message]
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