Hi,
I came across a problem in the mtd nand flash driver for Linux 2.6.16,
where the driver tries to allocate about 135k using kmalloc. Now, it used
to be that kmalloc couldn't handle more than 128k, but for instance
looking in the 3rd edition of Linux Device Drivers, it more cryptically
says that 128k is guaranteed, but the depending on the architecture and
kernel version.
I have not yet dived into the code, but does anyone know what this
limitation was historically, why it has changed and what governs it in the
later kernels?
/Ricard
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