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Re: how can i allocate 4MB memory

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, G Aruna wrote:

>              I am working under linux platform with kernel version
> 2.4.2. I have a need to allocate 4MB of contigeous memory. With
> __get_free_pages system call i am able to allocate only 512kb. But my
> requirement is 4MB . Please help me so that i can meet my requirement.

Your best chance would be to reserve this memory at boot
time, maybe you'll even need to change MAX_ORDER in
mm/page_alloc.c to do this...

Btw, I hope you are aware that kernel 2.4.2 is old and
has a number of (security) bugs. Unless you have very good
reasons to use this kernel and you are certain that the
machine will never get a network interface you'll probably
want to upgrade to something newer.

kind regards,

Rik
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