Problem: 51MB partition max size on jffs2

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Wed Dec 4 14:01:08 EST 2002


On Wednesday 04 December 2002 19:46, David Woodhouse wrote:
> DGE at sixnetio.com said:
> >  kmalloc() is limited to 128K and the 128MB Flash needs more than
> > twice that,
> >
> > so I tried vmalloc() and it seems to be OK (at least with PPC 2.4.18
> > patched for the new MTD code). Does anyone know if this change is
> > safe?
>
> You need to change the corresponding kfree() to vfree().

That's right. In actual CVS-code this problem is solved by building virtual 
blocks of 2,4 or 8 physical blocks. 

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Thomas
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