From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: anand kumar <a_santha@rediffmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Memory allocation problem
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:29:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030430232917.A24259@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030430222825.GA25371@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:28:25PM -0700
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:28:25PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.
vmalloc is not physically continguos, He could use bootmem
unless he wants his driver to work modular.
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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
2003-04-30 22:29 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-04-30 22:36 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-01 13:20 Mark_H_Johnson
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