Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:15:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:15:43 -0400 Received: from gap.cco.caltech.edu ([131.215.139.43]:1216 "EHLO gap.cco.caltech.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:15:34 -0400 Date: 2 Oct 2001 15:29:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20011002152945.15180.qmail@mailweb16.rediffmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Dinesh Gandhewar" Reply-To: "Dinesh Gandhewar" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have written a linux kernel module. The linux version is 2.2.14. In this module I have declared an array of size 2048. If I use this array, the execution of this module function causes kernel to reboot. If I kmalloc() this array then execution of this module function doesnot cause any problem. Can you explain this behaviour? Thnaks, Dinesh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/