Hi...

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 16:09, Andrea Gasparini <[email protected]> wrote:
> What I need to do is allocate 10MB with alloc_bootmem() functions, doing
> something really simple:
>
> pointer = alloc_bootmem_pages( TENMEGABYTES );
>
> and below there's the output.
> any ideas? Someone knows if 2.6.18 had issues with alloc_bootmem?
> Should the size value be page aligned?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> [    0.830000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
> address 00000000

Looking at the message, my best guess so far is that you might forgot
to allocate some amount of bootmem pages using certain kernel
parameter. However, my bad, I forgot what the parameter is.
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Mulyadi Santosa
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