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SubjectRe: %u-order allocation failed
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >
> > > Buddy allocator is broken - kill it. Or at least do not misuse it for
> > > anything except kernel or driver initialization.
> >
> > Please send patches to get rid of the buddy allocator while
> > still making it possible to allocate contiguous chunks of
> > memory.
> >
> > If you have any idea on how to fix things, this would be a
> > good time to let us know.
>
> Here goes the fix. (note that I didn't try to compile it so there may be
> bugs, but you see the point).

So what are you going to do when your 64MB of vmalloc space
runs out ?

Rik
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diff -u -r linux-orig/include/asm-i386/processor.h linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h
--- linux-orig/include/asm-i386/processor.h Sat Oct 6 16:21:50 2001
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h Sat Oct 6 16:31:15 2001
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@
#define KSTK_ESP(tsk) (((unsigned long *)(4096+(unsigned long)(tsk)))[1022])

#define THREAD_SIZE (2*PAGE_SIZE)
-#define alloc_task_struct() ((struct task_struct *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,1))
+#define alloc_task_struct() ((struct task_struct *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_VMALLOC,1))
#define free_task_struct(p) free_pages((unsigned long) (p), 1)
#define get_task_struct(tsk) atomic_inc(&virt_to_page(tsk)->count)

diff -u -r linux-orig/include/linux/mm.h linux/include/linux/mm.h
--- linux-orig/include/linux/mm.h Sat Oct 6 16:21:59 2001
+++ linux/include/linux/mm.h Sat Oct 6 16:28:12 2001
@@ -550,6 +550,7 @@
#define __GFP_IO 0x40 /* Can start low memory physical IO? */
#define __GFP_HIGHIO 0x80 /* Can start high mem physical IO? */
#define __GFP_FS 0x100 /* Can call down to low-level FS? */
+#define __GFP_VMALLOC 0x200 /* Can vmalloc pages if buddy allocator fails */

#define GFP_NOHIGHIO (__GFP_HIGH | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO)
#define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_HIGH | __GFP_WAIT)
diff -u -r linux-orig/mm/page_alloc.c linux/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-orig/mm/page_alloc.c Sat Oct 6 16:21:47 2001
+++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c Sat Oct 6 16:36:28 2001
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>

int nr_swap_pages;
int nr_active_pages;
@@ -421,9 +422,9 @@
struct page * page;

page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
- if (!page)
- return 0;
- return (unsigned long) page_address(page);
+ if (page) return (unsigned long) page_address(page);
+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_VMALLOC) return (unsigned long)__vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE << order, gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ return 0;
}

unsigned long get_zeroed_page(unsigned int gfp_mask)
@@ -447,6 +448,10 @@

void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order)
{
+ if (addr >= VMALLOC_START && addr < VMALLOC_END) {
+ vfree((void *)addr);
+ return;
+ }
if (addr != 0)
__free_pages(virt_to_page(addr), order);
}
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