On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 02:59:34PM -0500, Athul Acharya hit keys to express the following: > Hey folks, > > Next question: What's the preferred way of allocating a (fairly large) what do you mean by fairly large? > struct? Is it acceptable to just declare a struct foo bar; and have it 2.6.x has only 4kB kernel stack. So `fairly large` may or may not fit. > on the stack? Or should i explicitly allocate space with __kmalloc()? allocating with kmalloc should be fine. Why do you want to use __kmalloc? > Or perhaps something else entirely? If you are considering a pool of structs, you can try kmem_cache_alloc to create one. HTH, Om. -- Memory should be the starting point of the present. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
