[parisc-linux] Strange newest LAB msg?

[Helge Deller]

On Saturday 01 April 2006 09:02, Grant Grundler wrote:
> 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?

I'm pretty sure.
We never vmalloc'ed IOmem before.

Helge