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Re: Memory allocation problem

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:28:25PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:14:38PM -0000, anand kumar wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any other mechanism to allocate large amount of
> > > physically contiguous memory blocks during normal run time of the
> > > driver? Is this being addressed in later kernels.
> >
> > Look at vmalloc().  It should do what you are looking for.
> 
> vmalloc is not physically continguos,  He could use bootmem
> unless he wants his driver to work modular.

Search for the bigphysarea kernel patch. It will do what you want.

Mark
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