Re: Alloc and lock down large amounts of memory

Gilad Ben-Yossef
2002-08-18T22:42:00Z

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 15:18, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 13:09, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> > > Can 256M be allocated using vmalloc, if so is it swappable?
> >
> > It can be alloacted via vmalloc and AFAIK it is not swappable by
> > default. This doesn't sound like a very good idea though.
>
> There isnt enough address space for vmalloc to grab 256Mb. If you want
> that much then you need to handle the fact its in page arrays not
> virtually linear yourself.

Oopss... indeed. 256M is twice the entire vmalloc address space to be
exact.

Thanks for correcting my mistake ;-)

Gilad.

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