From: Peter Dinda <pdinda@northwestern.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:59:40 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Use vmalloc for guest copy allocation
X-Git-Url: http://v3vee.org/palacios/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=palacios.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=861ce318738e31181f20286c9669979acf0f62d3

Use vmalloc for guest copy allocation
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diff --git a/linux_module/palacios-dev.c b/linux_module/palacios-dev.c
index 78e50b5..6645860 100644
--- a/linux_module/palacios-dev.c
+++ b/linux_module/palacios-dev.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static long v3_dev_ioctl(struct file * filp,
 	    guest->img_size = user_image.size;
 
 	    printk("Allocating kernel memory for guest image (%llu bytes)\n", user_image.size);
-	    guest->img = kmalloc(guest->img_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	    guest->img = vmalloc(guest->img_size);
 
 	    if (IS_ERR(guest->img)) {
 		printk("Error: Could not allocate space for guest image\n");