Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:01:08 +0100 | From | "Daniel J Blueman" <> | Subject | Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size. |
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On 12 Jun, 14:30, Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne@infinitevideocorporation.com> wrote: > I am writing a linux kernel driver for a custom pci device. I am > developing against the stock fedora 6 kernel on an x86. This device has > 512 MB of IO memory reserved by BAR 3. Whenever I try to ioremap this > space I get the error: > > allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase > size. > > I think I understand why this is happening. I obviously don't have > enough vmalloc space to map such a large chunk of memory. I have been > using Corbet's et el's "Linux Device Drivers", Love's "Linux Kernel > Development", and many websites as a guide in this development process > but have yet to come across information that will help me. > > I'm curious if there is a way around this issue. Or a better way of > handling it so that I can properly map the entire io memory space.
You can boot with kernel parameter vmalloc=384M or so. I have experienced problems with booting with other values, but YMMV.
Daniel
> Thanks for any help, > Jon -- Daniel J Blueman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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