From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: kernel hangs in 118th call to vmalloc References: <3B8FDA36.5010206@interactivesi.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 08 Sep 2001 12:30:41 -0600 In-Reply-To: <3B8FDA36.5010206@interactivesi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Timur Tabi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Timur Tabi writes: > I'm writing a driver for the 2.4.2 kernel. I need to use this kernel because > this driver needs to be compatible with a stock Red Hat system. Patches to the > kernel are not an option. > > The purpose of the driver is to locate a device that exists on a specific memory > > chip. To help find it, I've written this routine: What is wrong with using SPD to detect interesting properties of memory chips? That should be safer and usually easier then what you are trying now. Eric -- 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/