netdev - Re: rhashtable - rhashtable_insert

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 10:39:57 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: rhashtable - rhashtable_insert_fast failed

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 04:47:28PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 07.06.2016 16:16, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 04:13:50PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> >>
> >> What warnings do you mean specifically? Some specific CONFIG_ option ?
> > 
> > Look for GFP_NOWARN in lib/rhashtable.c and delete it.
> 
> Ok, removed it.
> It generates a kernel warning: 

Thanks.  This is exactly the problem that I'm yet to fix, namely
we're trying to allocate a hash table that's too big to be done
using physically contiguous memory.
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