kmalloc and get_free_pages failure

From: aprasad@in.ibm.com
Date: Sat Sep 23 2000 - 08:12:30 EST


i tried to allocate physical memory of 128k by calling kmalloc function,
passing parameter of (128k-1)bytes, but the computer hanged. when i made it
to 32k , the computer rebooted,
i am using 2.2.14-5.0 kernel.
same was the case with get_free_pages() service..

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