Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:46:34 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? |
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On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:32:01AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > yep, if eg. an fsck happened before modules are loaded then RAM is filled > > up with the buffer-cache. The best guarantee is to compile such drivers > > into the kernel. > > My ISDN drivers don't start up correctly after an fsck.
This is a known bug in the isdn driver. They use a >64K array for their device structures. The easy fix is to just replace the kmalloc with a vmalloc() [the better fix would be to use a array of pointers and allocate the device structures only when needed]. These are just internal structures that are never touched by hardware, so vmalloc is fine.
I believe Karsten has fixed it in the latest I4L Tree.
-Andi
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