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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: A hole in kernel space!
From:       Adrian Bunk <bunk () fs ! tum ! de>
Date:       2002-11-06 21:07:07
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:09:34PM +0200, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> 
> I do not alloc/dealloc every time ;-). I allocate at boot and do not
> bother deallocating at all. The module just uses that allocated memory
> and maps it into the filesystem namespace.
>...

Read pages 221-223 in

   Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.  Linux device drivers.
   O'Reilly, second edition, 2001.  Online version:
   http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html


cu
Adrian

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