Hi,
use of
get_zeroed_page(unsigned int flags);  or
get_free_page(unsigned int flags);
might help you.


Thanks,
Pritam

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
[off-list ref]wrote:

Hi...

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 02:06, mindentropy [off-list ref] wrote:

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mind to tell us, how do you allocate memory? kmalloc?

Via kmalloc.

As Greg said, you probably better use vmalloc for such allocation.
Vmalloc can deal with non contigous physical pages...

quoted

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furthermore, could you kindly paste the content of /proc/meminfo right
before OOM kicks in?

Its kind of tough to do it as it happens so fast. I will try to write a

script

quoted

which polls.

Alright, I just thought it will be better if we understand the overall
virtual memory situation better.


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