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Message-Id: <200705162342.08601.arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:42:07 +0200
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Slab allocators: Define common size limitations
On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> What are the changes a large allocation will actually succeed?
> Is there an alignment rule for large allocations?
>
> E.g. for one of the PS3 drivers I need a physically contiguous 256 KiB-aligned
> block of 256 KiB. Currently I'm using __alloc_bootmem() for that, but maybe
> kmalloc() becomes a suitable alternative now?
kmalloc is limited to 128KiB on most architectures. Normally there is no
need to use it anyway, just use __get_free_pages(). It will generally
succeed at early boot time, but not after the system has been running
for some time.
Arnd <><
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