From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:01:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:01:03 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:61707 "HELO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:00:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:58:56 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: "Michael Nguyen" Cc: "David S. Miller" , "Petko Manolov" , Subject: Re: RE2: kmalloc Message-ID: <20010615145856.C960@conectiva.com.br> Mail-Followup-To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , "Michael Nguyen" , "David S. Miller" , "Petko Manolov" , In-Reply-To: <8A098FDFC6EED94B872CA2033711F86F01A9A2@orion.ariodata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <8A098FDFC6EED94B872CA2033711F86F01A9A2@orion.ariodata.com>; from mnguyen@ariodata.com on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:41:59AM -0700 X-Url: http://advogato.org/person/acme Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Em Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:41:59AM -0700, Michael Nguyen escreveu: > Hi David, > > >>Petko Manolov writes: > >> kmalloc fails to allocate more than 128KB of > >> memory regardless of the flags (GFP_KERNEL/USER/ATOMIC) > >> > >> Any ideas? > > >Yes, this is the limit. > > Im relatively new to Linux. I would like to ask. > Is this limit per kmalloc()? Can I do this multiple times? the limit is for a single invocation of kmalloc, yes, you can do it multiple times. - Arnaldo