Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:37:56 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: array size limit in module? |
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:18:35PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > Use vmalloc for allocations that large, unless you must have the memory > physically contiguous. 128k is the largest amount of memory you can > allocate with kmalloc.
Even before he uses vmalloc, he should take a programming 101 course that explains the importance of error checking. kmalloc returned NULL, the code didn't handle the case. Switching to vmalloc will only make the code usually work, but still susceptible to crashing.
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