[BUG] 2.6.8-rc3 redboot.c tries to kmalloc 256K

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 13:50 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With 2.6.8-rc3, I'm unable to mount the jffs2 root filesystem on one of
> my test systems.  The system uses redboot, so has a redboot partition
> table.  However, the kernel was not detecting the table.
> 
> After prodding about for a while, I've found that redboot.c seems to
> be trying to kmalloc 256K of memory.   The largest size that kmalloc
> supports is 128K on MMUfull systems.

We can switch to vmalloc().

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