Re: kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

[Brian Pomerantz]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:54:20PM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote:
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> [please cc me on any responses]
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> Environment: 2.4.0 released, Pentium III with 256MB's of RAM.
> Problem:  kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542"
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The most you can kmalloc() is 128KB unless this has changed in the 2.4
kernel which I doubt.  If you want a region of memory that large, use
vmalloc().  Of course, this doesn't guarantee a contiguous region.

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