Dave Chinner wrote:
Was fixed in 3.4: $ gl -n 1 ad650f5 commit ad650f5b27bc9858360b42aaa0d9204d16115316 Author: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 7 04:50:21 2012 +0000 xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_attrmulti_attr_getxfsdump uses for a large buffer for extended attributes, which has akmalloc'd shadow buffer in the kernel. This can fail after the system has been running for some time as it is a high order allocation. Add a fallback to vmalloc so that it doesn't require contiguous memory and so won't randomly fail while xfsdump is running.
---- AWESOME!!!!! Thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you!!!.... I would have been trying all sorts of random things to figure out what I had messed up!... ================== Note to Stan: I was right with ya!.... I felt sketchy about that module.. even though I wasn't using it, and wasn't even loaded, it got loaded at boot (for Oracle's 'vm' implementation) which contaminated things. As for my misconfiguring... was gonna say it was not impossible. While I've been rolling my own for over a decade, things just get more and more complicated as time goes on and sometimes I really don't know what I am doing -- I guess -- usually it ends up with drivers that "do nothing", though at worst, I could end up with a non-booting kernel (rare, but non-booting system happening alot more often since Suse has moved to systemd and started putting needed boot utils in a non-root partition (/usr is separate on my system). They tell me either move /usr to root, or they expect their users to be booting from an initrd. (which I don't -- my boot HW is builtin to my kernel). Things I wanna try out, or think I "might" use, I build as modules: Right now (some of these probably could or should be builtin, but the system boots w/out them), have: # lsmod Module Size Used by sch_sfq 10080 3 sch_htb 15123 1 mousedev 11440 1 acpi_cpufreq 7577 1 mperf 1348 1 acpi_cpufreq processor 35852 1 acpi_cpufreq --- but if I type modprobe and press complete (and have my complete facility loaded), it asks me if I want to display all 342 possibilities. Probably most of that is network related depending on how I want to config things (nat/firewall/routing/shaping...none of which I usually run all the time, so their all mods)... But I know I have some mods on there that do nothing on my HW, but I've had a few that didn't at first, but then with tweaks in the BIOS or kernel updates, started getting used. So wanted to let you know -- I appreciated the pointers -- I didn't reject any of them... But in this case THANK YOU DAVE!!!! (that's why I post random symptoms sometimes --- on the minuscule hope that someone might have seen it (or better, has already put in a fix for it!).... _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
