Re: MM with fragmented memory

[Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>]

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Werner Almesberger wrote:

> >>  - allocations from start_mem and end_mem are each limited to a total of
> >>    512kB
> > 
> > Allocations are limited to 128kB already.
> 
> Are you sure this limit also applies to linear allocations, i.e.
>     my_huge_buffer = start_mem;
>     start_mem += 5*1024*1024;

Things like this will have to be done at kernel initialization.
The code is arch-specific and the number of occurances will be
absolutely minimal. Unless, of course, you will want to have
multiple multi-megabyte buffers on your Psion-5 ;)

Rik.
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