Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:43:33 +0100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] regression: vmalloc easily fail. |
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:29:40PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >Hmm, spanning <30MB of memory... how much vmalloc space do you have? > > > > > > From the original report: > > >VmallocTotal: 122880 kB > >VmallocUsed: 15184 kB > >VmallocChunk: 83764 kB > > So it seems there's quite a bit of free space. > > Chunk is the largest free contiguous region, right? If so, it seems the
Yes.
> problem is unrelated to guard pages, instead the search isn't finding a > 1-page area (with two guard pages) for some reason, even though lots of > free space is available.
Hmm. The free area search could be buggy...
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