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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:58:16 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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Subject: Re: %u-order allocation failed
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >
> > > Buddy allocator is broken - kill it. Or at least do not misuse it for
> > > anything except kernel or driver initialization.
> >
> > Please send patches to get rid of the buddy allocator while
> > still making it possible to allocate contiguous chunks of
> > memory.
> >
> > If you have any idea on how to fix things, this would be a
> > good time to let us know.
>
> Here goes the fix. (note that I didn't try to compile it so there may be
> bugs, but you see the point).

So what are you going to do when your 64MB of vmalloc space
runs out ?

Rik
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