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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:41:36 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: chiranjeevi vaka <cvaka_kernel@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: using kmalloc
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Em Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:18:31AM -0800, chiranjeevi vaka escreveu:

> I am getting some problems with kmalloc. If I tried to allocate more than
> certain memory then the system is hanging while booting with the changed
> kernel. Can you suggest me how to come out this situation. Can't I allocate
> as much I want when I want to allocate in the kernel. 

try vmalloc, kmalloc is limited, AFAIK, to 128 KiB and even that is difficult
to get after some time.

- Arnaldo
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