Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-08 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:56:09AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Andrew, hi Chritoph, > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:38:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) > > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > >

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Andrew, hi Chritoph, On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:38:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' > > > >

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-08 Thread Balbir Singh
Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error >>> >>> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h >>> CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh >>>

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-08 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error >> >> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h >> CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh >> CHK include/linux/compile.h >>

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-08 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/linux/compile.h GEN .version

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-08 Thread Balbir Singh
Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Andrew, hi Chritoph, On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:38:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' There is also a

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-08 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:56:09AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Andrew, hi Chritoph, On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:38:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: :

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error > > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh > CHK include/linux/compile.h > GEN .version > CHK

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > sounds like a bad idea; a compile time failure is of course nicer than > a runtime failure for the cases we can find the bug at compile-time already. > There is not much chance of a runtime failure these days since kmalloc now supports up to 4MB

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We could replace the __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much() with a BUG() > statement so we have the same effect in SLAB? > sounds like a bad idea; a compile time failure is of course nicer than a runtime failure

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' > > There is also a kernel.org bugzilla for this at > >

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' There is also a kernel.org bugzilla for this at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9669 For some reason my adds to this do not show up. In both cases we have a

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error > > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh > CHK include/linux/compile.h > GEN .version > CHK

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Hi, The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/linux/compile.h GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Hi, The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/linux/compile.h GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/linux/compile.h GEN .version CHK

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' There is also a kernel.org bugzilla for this at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9669 For some reason my adds to this do not show up. In both cases we have a

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' There is also a kernel.org bugzilla for this at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9669 For

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could replace the __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much() with a BUG() statement so we have the same effect in SLAB? sounds like a bad idea; a compile time failure is of course nicer than a runtime failure for

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: sounds like a bad idea; a compile time failure is of course nicer than a runtime failure for the cases we can find the bug at compile-time already. There is not much chance of a runtime failure these days since kmalloc now supports up to 4MB

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

2008-01-07 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/linux/compile.h GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h