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SubjectRe: Memory allocation of 132 KB
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 sroy@wipinfo.soft.net wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In a network driver, I tried to allocate memory for DMA buffer of length
>132 KB and the call (kmalloc()) failed. Hacking through kmalloc.c, I found
>that it does not allow allocating memory more than (128K - 24) bytes, if the
>page size is 4KB.
>
>Me questions are -
>
>1. Why is that limitation ?
>2. Is there any way to allocate 132 KB memory (physically contiguous) ?

Use __get_free_pages() by hand specifying the order or mm you need. order
0 -> 1 page, order 2 -> 2page, order 3 -> 4 page etc..etc..

Andrea[s] Arcangeli


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