On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 schwidefsky@de.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Ok, the BUG() hit in get_pmd_slow:
>
> pmd_t *
> get_pmd_slow(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long offset)
> {
> pmd_t *pmd;
> int i;
>
> pmd = (pmd_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,2);
You really need 4 pages?
There's no way to reliably get 4 consecutive pages when you're even close
to being low on memory. I would suggest just failing with a NULL return
here.
What is the architecture setup for this machine? I have no clue about
S/390 memory management. Maybe you can modify the pmd layout?
One potential fix for this is to just make the page size bigger. Make
"Linux pages" be _two_ hardware pages, and make a Linux pte contain two
"hardware pte's". That way the pmd would be an order-1 allocation instead
of an order-2 one. Which is statistically _much_ more likely to be around
(exponential distribution).
Linus
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