Re: Advice about the linux kernel development process

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:07:40AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 04:39:15PM +0200, Oscar Carter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been working in the KSPP task number 20: "Enable -Wcast-function-type > > globally" [1] but now I have some questions about the development process. > > > >

Re: Are there some potential problems that I should be aware of if I allocate the memory which doesn't have any relation to peripheral hardwares(i.e. DMA, PCI, serial port and etc) by vmalloc() instea

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 02:00:50PM +0800, 孙世龙 sunshilong wrote: > Hi, Greg KH > Thank you for your patience and your help. > >What code is causing that failure by asking for memory that you do not > >have? Please fix that up, the core kernel should be fine. > > >Then fix your broken driver that

Re: Are there some potential problems that I should be aware of if I allocate the memory which doesn't have any relation to peripheral hardwares(i.e. DMA, PCI, serial port and etc) by vmalloc() instea

Hi, Greg KH Thank you for your patience and your help. >What code is causing that failure by asking for memory that you do not >have? Please fix that up, the core kernel should be fine. >Then fix your broken driver that is asking for so much memory on a >system that does not have it. Do you