On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Prabhu Chawandi <prabhu.chavandi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I am specifying the memory as part of command line parameter "mem=". > I know only that what ever amount specify against "mem=" will be a > kernel memory and rest is used for the drivers. > No it doesn't work like that. Setting mem= will reduce the total amount of memory used. If your system has 256M and you specify mem=128M the result is that the other 128M is unused. The kernel makes no separation between "kernel" and "drivers". Drivers are part of the kernel (ie they live in the same address space and can touch any memory). There is a separation between kernel and userspace (ie userspace processes cannot touch each others memory nor kernel memory). However even the "userspace memory" comes from the same "pool" reduced by mem=. So when you changed mem=128M to mem=110M (intending to give more memory to "drivers") what you actually did was to reduce the memory available to the system. If that causes a crash its likely just not enough memory available, probably nothing specific to USB just that's where it happens to run out. Why are you reducing memory in this way? Normally the bootloader knows / detects how much memory is available and informs the kernel. Reducing it is generally only done for testing purposes (such as the case where you have a development board that has more memory than the production unit will so you artificially reduce the available memory to see how it will behave on a production board). Hope this helps, Regards, Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
