Regarding remap_pfn_page

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 13:56:43 EDT 2011


Hi :)

Sorry to kicks in...

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:29, mindentropy <mindentropy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On my x86_64 machine with 3GB of RAM I cannot mmap a of len=16*1024*1024. So I
> am assuming it did not find contiguous pages or has run out of contiguous
> pages(Again assuming that the amount of pages reserved for this is small
> either the memory hole or the high memory).

hm, quite likely you run out of contigous virtual address space that
as big as you requested... in above, you requested 16 MiB, right?


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Mulyadi Santosa
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