From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA17944 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:31:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:26:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: MM with fragmented memory In-Reply-To: <199810220948.LAA06921@lrcsun15.epfl.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Werner Almesberger Cc: Linux MM List-ID: On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Werner Almesberger wrote: > >> - allocations from start_mem and end_mem are each limited to a total of > >> 512kB > > > > Allocations are limited to 128kB already. > > Are you sure this limit also applies to linear allocations, i.e. > my_huge_buffer = start_mem; > start_mem += 5*1024*1024; Things like this will have to be done at kernel initialization. The code is arch-specific and the number of occurances will be absolutely minimal. Unless, of course, you will want to have multiple multi-megabyte buffers on your Psion-5 ;) Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org