On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) <bgholikh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > HI > > I would like to reserve some of the system memory for our kernel modules. > > After some googling there seems to be there are different ways of doing this > but still I am not clear. > > My question is if I want to put aside some portion of the our platform > memory (about 300 Mbytes) for couple of our kernel modules, how could I > achieve this and how to access the dedicated memory for those modules at the > run time. > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > B > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > Hi Have a look at CMA[ 1], ION [2] and dmabuf [3]. I think something of it will suite your needs... at least you can use reserve_bootmem [4] [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/486301/ [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/480055/ [3] http://lwn.net/Articles/474819/ [4] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=reserve_bootmem Best wishes Vladimir Murzin _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
