Hank Leininger wrote:
> This seems to help, but I still get oops's. The "losetup; mke2fs" test
> of a 23GB partition now gets further than it did before--instead of
> dying while inode tables are written, it dies while writing superblocks
> / FS accounting information. Interestingly this time it did *not* log a
> '0-order allocation' error first. The oops was very similar, but not
> identical; here it is:
Can you try this patch then, against original v1.4d
cd loop-AES-v1.4d
patch -p0 < filename
make
Also, add this line to your /etc/modules.conf
options loop lo_prealloc=150
Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- loop.c-2.4.diff.old Sun Sep 2 21:33:01 2001
+++ loop.c-2.4.diff Wed Sep 26 01:16:00 2001
@@ -261,12 +261,12 @@
+ memset(bh, 0, sizeof(struct buffer_head));
+ bh->b_page = p;
+ } else {
-+ bh = kmem_cache_alloc(bh_cachep, SLAB_ATOMIC);
++ bh = 0; /* kmem_cache_alloc(bh_cachep, SLAB_ATOMIC); */
+ if(!bh) {
+ return((struct buffer_head *)0);
+ }
+ memset(bh, 0, sizeof(struct buffer_head));
-+ bh->b_page = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
++ bh->b_page = 0; /* alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC); */
+ if(!bh->b_page) {
+ kmem_cache_free(bh_cachep, bh);
+ return((struct buffer_head *)0);
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