Re: A hole in kernel space!

Marc A. Volovic (marc@bard.org.il)
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:09:34 +0200


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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Marc A. Volovic                                             marc@bard.org.il
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