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> Gerald Heinig wrote:
>=20
> > How about implementing your code as a system call, which is called
from
> > a process that maps a large file into memory, as you suggested
above.
>=20
> What if the code is a device driver?

I'm just assuming it isn't a device driver. Sonja (the original poster)
just mentioned 'a kernel module'.
It might be worth asking what exactly this module does and why it would
need to be implemented as a kernel module if it needs so much memory.

If it's a device driver, what is it driving? The only hardware that
springs to mind which might need large amounts of memory is a camera
driver or some high-speed sampling device.