Re: percpu allocation failures in kvm

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Fri Dec 14 2012 - 20:24:28 EST


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:43:23PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On 3.7.0 + irrelevant patches, I get this on boot. I've seen it on
> and off on earlier kernels, I think (although I'm not currently
> getting it on 3.5).
>
> [ 10.230054] PERCPU: allocation failed, size=304 align=32, alloc
> from reserved chunk failed
> [ 10.230059] Pid: 1026, comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 3.7.0-ama+ #5
> [ 10.230060] Call Trace:
> [ 10.230070] [<ffffffff81129efb>] pcpu_alloc+0x9db/0xa40
> [ 10.230074] [<ffffffff810a81ad>] ? find_symbol_in_section+0x4d/0x140
> [ 10.230077] [<ffffffff810a8160>] ? finished_loading+0x50/0x50
> [ 10.230080] [<ffffffff810a8af0>] ? each_symbol_section+0x30/0x70
> [ 10.230083] [<ffffffff810a8b61>] ? find_symbol+0x31/0x60
> [ 10.230086] [<ffffffff8112a1f3>] __alloc_reserved_percpu+0x13/0x20
> [ 10.230089] [<ffffffff810ab48d>] load_module+0x3ed/0x1b50
> [ 10.230093] [<ffffffff81075c3b>] ? __srcu_read_unlock+0x4b/0x70
>
> --Andy

You're loading the kvm module, or loading some other module inside
a kvm guest?

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