Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: %u-order allocation failed | Date | Sun, 7 Oct 2001 10:40:23 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Here goes the fix. (note that I didn't try to compile it so there may be > bugs, but you see the point).
It isnt a fix
> kmalloc should be fixed too (used badly for example in select.c - and yes > - I have seen real world bugreports for poll randomly failing with > ENOMEM), but it will be hard to audit all drivers that they do not try to > use dma on kmallocated memory.
So you run out of blocks of vmalloc address space instead. The same problem still occurs and always will - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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