Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:26:08 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo |
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Also, dynamic vmalloc allocations may very well be starved by boot-time >> allocations on systems where much vmallocspace is required for IO memory. >> The failure mode of such is effectively deadlock, since they block >> indefinitely waiting for permanent boot-time allocations to be freed up.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:23:24AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Thank you!! How difficult would it be to back-port this to 2.4.18?
Note the follow-up to this saying that the above paragraph was incorrect. It doesn't sleep except to allocate backing memmory.
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