From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: anand kumar <a_santha@rediffmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Memory allocation problem
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:28:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030430222825.GA25371@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030430221438.16759.qmail@webmail35.rediffmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:14:38PM -0000, anand kumar wrote:
>
> Is there any other mechanism to allocate large amount of
> physically contiguous memory blocks during normal run time of the
> driver? Is this being addressed in later kernels.
Look at vmalloc(). It should do what you are looking for.
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-30 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-30 22:14 anand kumar
2003-04-30 22:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-04-30 22:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-30 22:36 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-01 13:20 Mark_H_Johnson
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