Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix DMI out of memory problems

2007-12-21 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > FWIW the ff tree has patches to allow "really early allocation" now. > They could be used for this. I didn't implement that for i386 though, > so that would still need some variant of your patch. Just to clarify -The allocation failure currently happe

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix DMI out of memory problems

2007-12-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 07:33:00PM -0500, Parag Warudkar wrote: > > People with HP Desktops (including me) encounter couple of DMI errors > during boot - dmi_save_oem_strings_devices: out of memory and dmi_string: > out of memory. > > On some HP desktops the DMI data include OEM strings (type 11)

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix DMI out of memory problems

2007-12-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007 12:06 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > * Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Here is the right one - > > > 2.6.24-rc5 is without patch, 2.6.24-rc5-new is with patch. > > > > > DMI present. > > > -dmi

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix DMI out of memory problems

2007-12-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 2.6.24-rc5-patched2007-12-19 07:21:05.0 -0500 > +++ 2.6.24-rc5-new2007-12-19 11:36:54.0 -0500 hm, i see no OOM messages in the diff - what am i missing? best would be to run: sort 2.6.24-rc5-patched > new.log sort

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix DMI out of memory problems

2007-12-19 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Dec 19, 2007 12:06 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here is the right one - > > 2.6.24-rc5 is without patch, 2.6.24-rc5-new is with patch. > > > DMI present. > > -dmi_save_oem_strings_devices: out of memory. > > -dmi_string: out o

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix DMI out of memory problems

2007-12-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the right one - > 2.6.24-rc5 is without patch, 2.6.24-rc5-new is with patch. > DMI present. > -dmi_save_oem_strings_devices: out of memory. > -dmi_string: out of memory. ok. I guess absent a real regression/bug reported by someone who gets

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix DMI out of memory problems

2007-12-19 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Dec 19, 2007 11:54 AM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- 2.6.24-rc5-patched2007-12-19 07:21:05.0 -0500 > > +++ 2.6.24-rc5-new2007-12-19 11:36:54.0 -0500 > > hm, i see no OOM messages in the diff - what am

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix DMI out of memory problems

2007-12-19 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Dec 19, 2007 5:48 AM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ note: i had to manually fix up your patch because your email client > added an extra space to every diff line - see > Documentation/email-clients.txt on how to avoid that. I al

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix DMI out of memory problems

2007-12-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People with HP Desktops (including me) encounter couple of DMI errors > during boot - dmi_save_oem_strings_devices: out of memory and > dmi_string: out of memory. > > On some HP desktops the DMI data include OEM strings (type 11) out of > which onl