Re: vmalloc errors in 2.4.20

[Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer@neuralscape.com>]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:39:37PM -0800, sandeep uttamchandani wrote:
> The linux kernel 2.4.20 seems to have problems with
> vmalloc. Here is what I did:
> 
> In my driver, I try to allocate a buffer of size 512K
> using vmalloc ( kmalloc cannot allocate more than
> 128K). It generates a kernel oops message saying that
> the virtual memory cannot be allocated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sandeep
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Hi Sandeep,

I'm running a stock 2.4.20 kernel and put together a little test module that
allocates 512k memory with vmalloc. I have no problems on an Intel X86. I
also ran it allocating 1MByte as well.

cheers,
Karen
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