Re: big allocation failure during tracing init.

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jun 27 2012 - 22:58:27 EST


On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 22:22 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 08:52:43PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 15:36 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > > I guess the problem is on kernels built with CONFIG_MAXCPUS, struct trace_iterator
> > > can be pretty large due to this embedded in it..
> > >
> > > struct ring_buffer_iter *buffer_iter[NR_CPUS];
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on how to change that to a smaller dynamic data structure,
> > > without adding too much overhead to tracing ? (I'm assuming a linked-list walk
> > > for eg would be excessive?)
> > >
> >
> > Does this patch fix it for you?
>
> I'm not sure what I did to trigger the allocation failure last time,
> but I'll run with this for a while, and see if anything falls out.

You probably need to do some tracing to trigger it. As it requires
opening of the trace files.

-- Steve


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