Re: [REGRESSION] x86 vmalloc issue from recent 3.10.0+ commit

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Jul 09 2013 - 22:00:34 EST


On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:51:32PM -0400, Michael L. Semon wrote:

> kernel: [ 2580.395592] vmap allocation for size 20480 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
> kernel: [ 2580.395761] vmalloc: allocation failure: 16384 bytes

I was seeing a lot of these recently too.
(Though I also saw memory corruption afterwards possibly caused by
a broken fallback path somewhere when that vmalloc fails)

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/102895

Dave

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