linux-kernel - Re: WARNING in vmap_page_range on alpha since 2.6.28

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:14:55 +0300
From:	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>
To:	Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@...bcu.de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, klausman@...warzvogel.de
Subject: Re: WARNING in vmap_page_range on alpha since 2.6.28

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:36:00PM +0000, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:
> I see similar traces:
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at /export/data/scm/linux-2.6/mm/vmalloc.c:104 vmap_page_range+0x1c4/0x264()

The problem is that alpha allocates some VMALLOC space very early
on boot, but the new VM allocator doesn't know about this.

I've posted a fix few days ago:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/7/574

Ivan.
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