On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:41:36PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 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.
Apparently, kmalloc semantics changed at some point
so it does not ever return error.
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