Re: RE2: kmalloc

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:58:56 -0300


Em Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:41:59AM -0700, Michael Nguyen escreveu:
> Hi David,
>
> >>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.

- Arnaldo
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