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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2006-10-03 01:13:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-03 08:03:40 -0700 |
| commit | 339b0c0813a257893fa84be999b9b85a50846dd8 (patch) | |
| tree | 572d37248fc56d8a364540621375bf7447b248cf /arch/frv | |
| parent | afefdbb28a0a2af689926c30b94a14aea6036719 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-339b0c0813a257893fa84be999b9b85a50846dd8.zip op-kernel-dev-339b0c0813a257893fa84be999b9b85a50846dd8.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] FRV: Permit large kmalloc allocations [try #2]
Permit kmalloc() to make allocations of up to 32MB if so configured. This
may be useful under NOMMU conditions where vmalloc() can't do this.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/frv')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/frv/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/frv/Kconfig b/arch/frv/Kconfig index f7b171b..cf1c446 100644 --- a/arch/frv/Kconfig +++ b/arch/frv/Kconfig @@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ config HIGHPTE with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page tables in high memory. +config LARGE_ALLOCS + bool "Allow allocating large blocks (> 1MB) of memory" + help + Allow the slab memory allocator to keep chains for very large memory + sizes - up to 32MB. You may need this if your system has a lot of + RAM, and you need to able to allocate very large contiguous chunks. + If unsure, say N. + source "mm/Kconfig" choice |
