[OpenAFS] Re: vmalloc troubles with 1.4.2

[Mike Dopheide]

Well, I had Joe's fix in place and ready to go when the system crashed 
again so we'll be testing his patch first.

If there's a known way to force the issue I can test the other patch on 
a seperate, less used system.

-Mike

Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Joe Buehler wrote:
> 
>> Mike Dopheide wrote:
>>
>>> Dec  4 13:18:03 osage kernel: afs_osi_Alloc: Can't vmalloc 4524 bytes.
>>> Dec  4 13:18:03 osage kernel: crget: No more memory for creds!
>>> Dec  4 13:18:05 osage kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
>>> dereference at virtual address 00000000
>>
>> This bit me also.  It was a known bug for which I submitted a patch,
>> but an alternate patch was coded up by someone, but never tested at 
>> large,
>> so it never made it to 1.4.2.
> 
> So again, I'll ask for testers
> http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2006-June/013915.html
> 
> In fairness, yours wasn't tested at large, either.
> 
> Derrick
> 
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