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From: Dan Aloni <da-x <at> colinux.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Bug in latest automatic colinux build
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.colinux.devel
Date: 2005-04-14 04:07:17 GMT (3 years, 11 weeks, 6 days, 1 hour and 23 minutes ago)
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:35:49PM +0200, Henry Nestler wrote:
> Thanks, yust forwarded to the list
> 
> Henry
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried out devel-20050408 but over night it failed with:
> 
> ...
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed
> Adding 524280k swap on /dev/cobd1.  Priority:-1 extents:1
> colinux: Linux VM terminated
> colinux: BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:612
> C:\colinux-dev>

Looks like co_alloc_pages() failed because the host OS memory was exhasted.
However prep_zero_page(), unlike __alloc_pages(), doesn't try to free
pages to cause the allocation to succeed. I'm patching this up for the
next version.

-- 
Dan Aloni
da-x <at> colinux.org

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