Re: A hole in kernel space!

Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:07:07 +0100

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:09:34PM +0200, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
>
> I do not alloc/dealloc every time ;-). I allocate at boot and do not
> bother deallocating at all. The module just uses that allocated memory
> and maps it into the filesystem namespace.
>...

Read pages 221-223 in

Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet. Linux device drivers.
O'Reilly, second edition, 2001. Online version:
http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html

cu
Adrian

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