Re: how to allocate 9MB of memory in kernel ?

vmalloc can only allocate 128k i guess where in i need 9MB allocated when
driver is inserted and would be released only when its removed. mapping to
user space is not a concern 

--- Misbah <><

Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Thursday 17 July 2008, Misbah khan wrote:

quoted

I need to allocate 9 MB of memory in to the kernel space which i need to
mmap for the application to access.

I need to know what could be the best possible way of doing the same.

If you don't need the memory to be physically contiguous, you can use
vmalloc to get the memory, but then you need to use remap_vmalloc_range
for mapping the memory into a user address space.

	Arnd <><
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