* Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> [2016-08-02 11:09:21]: > On 08/02/2016 06:19 AM, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > Kernels compiled with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT will initialise > > only certain size memory per node. The certain size takes into account > > the dentry and inode cache sizes. However such a kernel when booting a > > secondary kernel will not be able to allocate the required amount of > > memory to suffice for the dentry and inode caches. This results in > > crashes like the below on large systems such as 32 TB systems. > > What's a "secondary kernel"? > I mean the kernel thats booted to collect the crash, On fadump, the first kernel acts as the secondary kernel i.e the same kernel is booted to collect the crash. -- Thanks and Regards Srikar Dronamraju -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>