Re: kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

2001-01-17 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Richardson wrote: > Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542" This BUG() has been been removed in the later -ac patches as it was meant to be a temporary debugging help during the -test3 slab.c changes. This does not however remove the c

Re: kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

2001-01-17 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Brian Pomerantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:17:19 -0800 > The most you can kmalloc() is 128KB unless this has changed in the 2.4 > kernel which I doubt. If you want a region of memory that large, use > vmalloc(). Of course, this doesn't guarantee a conti

Re: kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

2001-01-17 Thread Brian Pomerantz
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:54:20PM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote: > > [please cc me on any responses] > > Environment: 2.4.0 released, Pentium III with 256MB's of RAM. > Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542" > The most you can kmalloc() is 128KB unless this

kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

2001-01-17 Thread Rick Richardson
[please cc me on any responses] Environment: 2.4.0 released, Pentium III with 256MB's of RAM. Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542" Here is the dmesg output: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 0001028