Re: [BUG] vmalloc, kmalloc - 2.4.x

From: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz (gj@pointblue.com.pl)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 10:40:29 EST

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On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:18, Alan Cox wrote:

> Firstly vmalloc isnt permitted in interrupt context (use kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL),
> although for such small chunks you might want to vmalloc a bigger buffer once
> at startup.
i've allso tried kmalloc with the same result.
Also, in this example it is timer - module isn't cleanly wroted becouse
it supose to be only an example.

-- Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl> K4 Labs

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