Re: kernel memory usage any restrictions?

[Chris Friesen]

cranium2003 wrote:
> hello,
>               Is there any restricition on using
> kernel's memory? also if i require to use some kernel
> memory say 625kB by allocating that in GFP_ATOMIC mode

Your call will almost certainly fail.  I think kmalloc will only give 
you up to 128KB, and even that might be tricky to do with GFP_ATOMIC.

For larger chunks of memory, you can use vmalloc() or reserve it 
statically at compile time.

Chris
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