Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757334AbYFLRGn (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:06:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753697AbYFLRGe (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:06:34 -0400 Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:34719 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752302AbYFLRGd (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:06:33 -0400 Subject: Re: Problem: Out of memory after 2days with 2GB RAM From: Johannes Berg To: Tomas Winkler Cc: Rik van Riel , Zdenek Kabelac , Linux Kernel Mailing List , yi.zhu@intel.com, reinette.chatre@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240806120935r54a080eci7fa6fafc718eed17@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080612_183546_862400_74C1FB2A) References: <20080612093833.0fb9cdd6@bree.surriel.com> <1213278884.3936.15.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240806120843s268b2ff4mb45a11adf11afc7f@mail.gmail.com> <1ba2fa240806120935r54a080eci7fa6fafc718eed17@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080612_183546_862400_74C1FB2A) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-US5klRkV1nBE0x3GLjJR" Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:05:35 +0200 Message-Id: <1213290335.3730.4.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2098 Lines: 57 --=-US5klRkV1nBE0x3GLjJR Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Probably. it would be safe to use vmalloc for allocating txb anyway. > > I'll give it a try. >=20 > So vmalloc didn't break anything on the 32bit machine I'm just about > to install 64 one so it will take hour or two.. I will issue some > official patch after that. Well, I disagree, and I'll push my patch as soon as somebody confirms that it doesn't break anything. > > There was already discussion on LKML about memory allocation problems > > on X86_64, which might explain this regression. This didn't happen > > before. >=20 > This is the thread title if you are interested. > 'x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |=3D __GFP_NORETRY' Like I said, it doesn't matter, there's no need to _waste_ 18*256*sizeof(void *) bytes memory. johannes --=-US5klRkV1nBE0x3GLjJR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJIUVdbAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYIc4P/2Ebf+XPaW6s4/BYvH7HpIbq /JocDvLUzk+q8+NJ468tJ5KNUxcJ2K18A7YiVUHY8vUg+PhIFACCm9cmaUwnOcws 4kh98S8CVVA4yDAyeW20ZVZe9tEznf1XL3HiAmbh0zaL5/shmBTGmO7c9MH8TAJS MZ7phLWNkXUN0I7pB3Gmv3vpPWb1cT4F/CcaZ6w+uvvcc50CMerPgGE1hrVipSej 8A9a0G7lPpU/vY1TGQhsAlRtQeflpT+Ao4lbw06iq9cUaSSCodtt+FEv16Oags/9 c1MJKyZP4/O66lfSkzN9mcv11+yXZPXy7+pqOgSXvfCJ7MGkPQab9CGANLUR0t6z O3Sb7UbohJXHBgWj7q/qx8eGgB46esn6FeJLRpKxpxCSQM+HHHsJO4DpwnQFqnrT NCMw+D2u1k8LF45Ujlom7hXTnn06nMmc4PedZaZipYqwTynqHfJvxZRxEOI42fuj XF1s6dQEvwacX2ICUT2GBS9KUZmfDtpcn0U6FNjo4RhRtKTOuUbTpjfzZ6ipVnIQ dOap5GmTeWNq6igpXmi6JaLPv4k1dKUwfbTsnk0cCsHgb2DzLj+POXk9XQG1/zhU 7Y0oO0vydbzXclTOIPDFcN6gMg1K9TBNVFP1lxD9OTp9jDBsj+Pue3wuYn+a0UEB TsJej93PUIbo/uSgaMpk =4EsQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-US5klRkV1nBE0x3GLjJR-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/