El Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 05:07:30AM -0700 Shaun Savage ha dit: > I am trying to allocate very large memory within the kernel. I want to > start by allocating one huge (4M) page and using that as buffer space.
possibly vmalloc() is what you're looking for, if it isn't really a *page* of 4M, what afaik is impossible with a standard kernel. vmalloc() allocates virtually contiguous memory, as opposed to kmalloc() which allocates physically contiguous memory. -- Matthias Kaehlcke Linux Application Developer Barcelona La libertad es como la maƱana. Hay quienes esperan dormidos a que llegue, pero hay quienes desvelan y caminan la noche para alcanzarla (Subcomandante Marcos) .''`. using free software / Debian GNU/Linux | http://debian.org : :' : `. `'` gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 47D8E5D4 `- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/