Re: What to do with: "warning: page-size limit reached"

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 00:05:02 +0100 (BST)

> This is a big problem because the network drivers parse
> /proc/pci to get their io address and IRQ info.

They dont. Some vendor tools may do so.

> In fs/proc/array.c::array_read():
>
> the page is allocated: if(!(page = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL)))
>
> Is there a way I can allocate two contiguous pages as the buffer ??

vmalloc()

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