Hi,
You can try by passing the flag GFP_KERNEL to __get_free_pages().
Eg: __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,9) where "9" represents - Order of 9; means requesting for 2^9(=512) contiguous pages in virtual address space
in order to allocate 2MB of contiguous memory.
Thanks & Regards
Murali
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From: "J.Hwan Kim" <frog1120@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How to allocate hugepage in kernel module?
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I set the __GFP_COMP flag to __get_free_pages(), but the result was same.
2012? 08? 09? 17:59, Denis Kirjanov ? ?:
> Forgot to CC kernelnewbies:
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> Did you pass the __GFP_COMP flag to __get_free_pages?
>
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> On 8/9/12, J.Hwan Kim<frog1120@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi, everyone
>>
>> How can I allocate physically contiguous huge page in kernel module ?
>> The routine of _get_fee_pages() fails whenever there are much free
>> memory in system.
>>
>> I found the procedures for set hugepages with sysctl or
>> /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages but I've not found the api for allocate the
>> huge page in kernel.
>>
>> Thanks in advnace.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> J.Hwan Kim
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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:18:02 -0700
From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How to allocate hugepage in kernel module?
To: "J.Hwan Kim" <frog1120@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@xxxxxxxxx>,
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On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 09:00 +0900, J.Hwan Kim wrote:
> I set the __GFP_COMP flag to __get_free_pages(), but the result was
> same.
Does this help?
sourd/core/memalloc.c +170
> 2012? 08? 09? 17:59, Denis Kirjanov ? ?:
> > Forgot to CC kernelnewbies:
> >
> > Did you pass the __GFP_COMP flag to __get_free_pages?
> >
> >
> > On 8/9/12, J.Hwan Kim<frog1120@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi, everyone
> >>
> >> How can I allocate physically contiguous huge page in kernel module ?
> >> The routine of _get_fee_pages() fails whenever there are much free
> >> memory in system.
> >>
> >> I found the procedures for set hugepages with sysctl or
> >> /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages but I've not found the api for allocate
> >> the huge page in kernel.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advnace.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> J.Hwan Kim
> >>
> >>
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