linux-kernel - Re: viafb triggers BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:294 [kernel 2.6.28.3]

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Message-ID: <20090207224601.GA3922@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 8 Feb 2009 01:46:01 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	wixor <wixorpeek@...il.com>
Cc:	JosephChan@....com.tw, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: viafb triggers BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:294 [kernel 2.6.28.3]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:45:16PM +0100, wixor wrote:
> It was the first one indeed.

Which is 256 MB in size and kernel says it has only 249 MB of vmalloc
space available.

Still strange, kernel should print nastygram when vmalloc space is not
enough.

You can try to boot with vmalloc=260M (261, 262...) option and see what happens.

> vmalloc : 0xf0690000 - 0xfffaa000   ( 249 MB)
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