duane voth writes:
> duane voth wrote:
> > ... I've attached a patch that
> > can be used to watch for the problem. The following is a 2.2 patch (2.4
> > will follow in a few minutes). If you see "vmalloc error" you might want
> > to uncomment the look_for_dangling_pgds function to get a better
duane voth wrote:
> ... I've attached a patch that
> can be used to watch for the problem. The following is a 2.2 patch (2.4
> will follow in a few minutes). If you see "vmalloc error" you might want
> to uncomment the look_for_dangling_pgds function to get a better feel for
> the pgds that cau
I've been abusing vmalloc() recently and stumbled across a rather obscure
bug. The code is nearly identical for 2.2 and 2.4 so I suspect it exists
in both trees and has been there for quite some time.
Under a heavy memory load (when __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL) is occasionally
returning NULL) vma
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