Jivin David Spain lays it down ... > David McCullough wrote: > >Jivin David Spain lays it down ... > >>Getting repetitions of these errors on my 2.4.32-uc0 uclinux console: > >> > >>ksize on unknown page type (index=361)! > >>... > >> > >>I know I'm low on free memory at this point. I've tracked the origin > >>of this message down to the ksize() function in the file: > >> > >> uClinux/linux-2.4.x/mmnommu/slab.c > >> > >>whereby the page->index is either negative or >= MAX_ORDER. > >> > >>Does this imply that the value of "page" returned from &mem_map[size] > >>was invalid? > > > >Have a look back through the archives, this has been discussed before. > > > >It's always been there, it's not fatal and it returns a "safe" number. > >The problem is that someone called ksize on an object that is being > >managed by someone other than page_alloc/slab. > > > >Cheers, > >Davidm > > > > FYI, these errors disappear when using the new page_alloc2() kernel config. > And re-appear when I configure back to the older page_alloc() code. > > Going forward it looks like page_alloc2() is the big win for me.
Thanks for the feedback, Cheers, Davidm -- David McCullough, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ph:+61 734352815 Secure Computing - SnapGear http://www.uCdot.org http://www.cyberguard.com _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by [email protected] To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
