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[PATCH] FRV: Permit large kmalloc allocations [try #2]

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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>
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David Howells 2006-10-03 01:13:47 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -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"
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