[parisc-linux] Strange newest LAB msg?

[Grant Grundler]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:54:48AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Just so nobody else has to scratch their head looking at two
> almost-identical dumps, the message Joel means is 
> 
> > Mar 31 11:45:39 patst006 kernel: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use
> > vmalloc=<size> to increase size.

Ah - thanks. I saw that but wasn't sure it was the cause of discussion.

> Either we're leaking vmalloc space, we allocate too much of it, or we
> need to drastically increase it the amount of it we have available.

It's odd that vmalloc fails so early in the boot sequence.
At least the last 10 (of 14) PCI busses fail with the
"allocation failed" message.
Could this somehow be related to the IOREMAP changes?

grant