Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:30:02 -0500 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: Reserving a (large) memory block |
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** Reply to message from Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> on Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:09:48 +0200 (CEST)
> in 2.4 there is an explicit interface for this that also guarantees that > the allocation consists of fully valid RAM (no matter how complex the RAM > map): alloc_bootmem(). We allocate 300MB+ worth of mem_map[] with this on > multi-gigabyte boxes.
Could you explain this API in more detail, I'm having a hard time following the code. Can this API be called by drivers at any time? I don't see how this API is different than a normal kmalloc().
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