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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:46:59 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: RE2: kmalloc
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Em Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:26:16PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov escreveu:
> 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.

Yup, like I suggested to Petko in a previous message :)

- Arnaldo