Re: vmalloc() in interrupt context

[Tigran Aivazian]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > I can't allocate the memory at the device initialization because the driver
> > is a loadable module and is not compiled into the kernel.
> 
> Oh, yes, you can - module_init() is your friend.

I think he meant reserving memory at boot time using 

memory_start = my_init(memory_start, memory_end);

mechanism that used to be present in ancient Linux kernels.

So, how can a module reserve a large amount of physically contiguous
memory?

Regards,
Tigran