Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:09:34 +0200 | From | "Marc A. Volovic" <> | Subject | Re: A hole in kernel space! |
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Quoth Richard B. Johnson:
> You know, I hope, that you can kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) something in > init_module() and it will always be resident in the kernel until > you kfree() it in cleanup_module(). You do not have to > allocate/deallocate every time your module does something.
I do not alloc/dealloc every time ;-). I allocate at boot and do not bother deallocating at all. The module just uses that allocated memory and maps it into the filesystem namespace.
> Bush : The Fourth Reich of America
Errr, not that I care, but as far as I know, America had not yet had even its first Reich. ;-)... Germany had three, so a forth Reich might have been there...
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