On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:49 PM, javaweb zhang <javawebzwp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, everyone. I use alloc_bootmem() in profile.c to allocate a big memory > at function profile_init(), how I know whether it is success? The following > is my code: > // at kernel/profile.c > ctxsw_A = (struct ctxsw_rec *)alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct ctxsw_rec)*CTXSW); > ctxsw_rec is a struct which declared in include/linux/profile.h, CTXSW = > 4>>10 4 >> 10 equals to zero. I think that it's your typo error. If you meet failure on allocating bootmem, kernel will panic. > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
