From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (amitjain@localhost) by mailhost.tifr.res.in (8.9.3+3.2W/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id PAA05516 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:36:46 +0530 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:36:46 +0530 (IST) From: "Amit S. Jain" Subject: Allocation of kernel memory >128K Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: I have been working on a module in which I copy large amount of data fromn the user to the kernel area.To do so I allocate using either kmaaloc or vmalloc or get_free_pages()large amount of memory(in the range of MBytes) in the kernel space.However this attempt is not successful.One ofmy colleagues informed me that in the kernel space it is safe not to allocate large amount of memory at one time,should be kept upto 30K...is he right....could you throw more light on this issue. Thanking you, Amit Jain < -- 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/