Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BUG] vmalloc, kmalloc - 2.4.x | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 03 Feb 2003 16:19:47 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:13, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote: > few days ago i started to port driver for our hardware in company from > windows to linux. It is simple ISA card, which gives me interrupt each > 8ms. So i can check it state and latch some sort of watchdog on it - > saying that i am still running (just for security, if system hangs card > is blocking all inputs/outputs).
> #include <linux/modversions.h>
don't do that. ever.
> #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD > #include <linux/kmod.h> > #endif
bullshit ifdef's (and the surrounding code has a whole bunch too
btw you do know you can't do vmalloc (or vfree) from interrupt context ? And that every vmalloc eats at minimum 8Kb of virtual memory space? Of which you can't count on having more than 64Mb on x86 ? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |