I've written a resident driver which calls vmalloc. If you're writing a module which calls vmalloc you'll need to make sure EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc) appears in
linux/arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/$(ARCH)_ksyms.c: ... otherwise insmod will fail. Alex John Francis wrote: > > I need to allocate more than page worth of memory in > kernel. Some documentation that I looked at indicated > I should be using vmalloc() , so I tried using it for > PPC kernel and it couldn't find this symbol. Looked > through the code ( 2.4.4 ) and I didn't see it. > > What is the best way to allocate "fairly" large memory > pool for use within the kernel by the driver? > > John > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
