Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:26:16 +0100 | | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | | Subject | Re: RE2: kmalloc |
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At 18:58 15/06/2001, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: >Em Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:41:59AM -0700, Michael Nguyen escreveu: > > >>Petko Manolov writes: > > >> kmalloc fails to allocate more than 128KB of > > >> memory regardless of the flags (GFP_KERNEL/USER/ATOMIC) > > >> > > >> Any ideas? > > > > >Yes, this is the limit. > > > > Im relatively new to Linux. I would like to ask. > > Is this limit per kmalloc()? Can I do this multiple times? > >the limit is for a single invocation of kmalloc, yes, you can do it multiple >times.
But if you need that much memory it would be better that you use vmalloc AFAIK.
Cheers,
Anton
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