From: Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer@neuralscape.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: vmalloc errors in 2.4.20
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 21:28:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030209052811.GA14948@synapse.neuralscape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030209043937.7134.qmail@web21309.mail.yahoo.com>
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:39:37PM -0800, sandeep uttamchandani wrote:
> The linux kernel 2.4.20 seems to have problems with
> vmalloc. Here is what I did:
>
> In my driver, I try to allocate a buffer of size 512K
> using vmalloc ( kmalloc cannot allocate more than
> 128K). It generates a kernel oops message saying that
> the virtual memory cannot be allocated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandeep
---end quoted text---
Hi Sandeep,
I'm running a stock 2.4.20 kernel and put together a little test module that
allocates 512k memory with vmalloc. I have no problems on an Intel X86. I
also ran it allocating 1MByte as well.
cheers,
Karen
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-09 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-09 4:39 sandeep uttamchandani
2003-02-09 5:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-09 5:28 ` Karen Shaeffer [this message]
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