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Hello, I am trying to allocate memory from a driver using GFP_KERNEL. The allocation fails if I try to allocate more than what is physically free. What ever memory is free is available in the free buffers/cache. Why is this happening ? How do I allocate more memory than what is available in the 'free physical'. Shouldn't kmalloc take care of flushing free buffers/cache to free physical when there is a memory allocation requirement ? I am running 2.4.7-10 RH7.2 on i386. Any suggestions or pointers could be very helpful. Thank you. Regards, Sriram - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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