From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:29:17 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Memory allocation problem Message-ID: <20030430232917.A24259@infradead.org> References: <20030430221438.16759.qmail@webmail35.rediffmail.com> <20030430222825.GA25371@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030430222825.GA25371@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:28:25PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Greg KH Cc: anand kumar , linux-mm@kvack.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org List-ID: 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org