insmod is failing on systems with small amout of memory
Ivica Mikec
imikec at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 25 06:56:28 UTC 2009
> From: dronnikov at gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:57:55 +0400
> Subject: Re: insmod is failing on systems with small amout of memory
> To: imikec at hotmail.com
> CC: busybox at busybox.net
>
> > Insmod fails on system with small amout of memory. I traced this problem to
> > a change where insmod used malloc instead of mmemap. I wonder if we can add
> > a option which will select either of the methods?
>
> The point of malloc() is to handle compressed modules. Do you use
> compressed (.ko.gz, .ko.bz2) modules?
>
> --
> Vladimir
No, I am not using compressed module. The patch is exactly what I did with 1.12.4. But the problem is the when you change the
version, you will need a new patch. It would be helpful if this patch can be included in the main tree.
Regards
Ivica
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