>So your question is rather more confined : Whether you can allocate >physically cotigous memory of 16MB, right? Mapping is not an issue >here. proper error handling will anyways tell you whether you >succeeded or not. I think with kmalloc, you may not get memory larger >than 4MB. Yes mapping was never an issue. Contiguous physical frames is an issue. kmalloc limitation is 128KB. __get_page_frames with order higher that 10 would have higher chances of failing. I guess I need to grab as much contiguous memory as possible during boot time. My /proc/buddyinfo on a 512MB RAM machine paints a depressing picture of contiguous chunks. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
