Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

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vmalloc — Force the vmalloc area to have a specific size.

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vmalloc= n[KMG]

Force vmalloc to have the exact size specified by n. This can be used to increase the minimum size of the vmalloc area (which is 128 MB on the x86 processor). It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room for directly mapped kernel RAM.

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