Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Crash with 2.0.33 | Date | Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:46:26 +0100 (BST) |
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> In a low-memory situation (process table filling up all memory) the > system crashes completely (no response to anything but the reset line) > after I manually load serial.o using insmod (modprobe doesn't load the > module, although it pretends everything went ok; kerneld doesn't load > the module either).
Is that repeatable to order
> Suspect: > The insert code does not check whether there is enough physical memory > available.
Not the case - I just looked. The actual insmod checks the area it gets, the serial driver does no further allocations at load time in 2.0
Alan
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