From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:07:23 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Huge vmalloc request? Need help... In-Reply-To: <3C617066.3DF01E66@tsl.uu.se> 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: On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Yuri Petukhov wrote: > I tried to allocate (vmalloc) huge (512MB) memory block inside my > init_module(), but without success. It is possible to get about > 48MB only. I work on Pentium SMP, 1GB RAM, RedHat-6.2 with kernel > 2.2.18. Is there some restrictions on vmalloc'ed size? I need > non-swapped memory block, of course. Don't do this, you don't need this space. On a 1 GB machine, the system leaves only 128 MB of space for both highmem bounce buffers and vmalloc. Your solution would be to keep track of which pages you're using yourself. regards, Rik -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/