From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: sandeep uttamchandani <sm_uttamchandani@yahoo.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: vmalloc errors in 2.4.20
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:22:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8050000.1044768131@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030209043937.7134.qmail@web21309.mail.yahoo.com>
> 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.
>
> I suspect there is a problem with the address range
> defined for vmalloc namely by VMALLOC_START and
> VMALLOC_END.
>
> Any thoughts of what might be going-on ?
Not really. But why don't you just call alloc_pages instead?
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-09 5:22 UTC|newest]
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2003-02-09 4:39 sandeep uttamchandani
2003-02-09 5:22 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-02-09 5:28 ` Karen Shaeffer
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