From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Parag Warudkar" Subject: Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:16:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080826183051.GB10925@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080826205916.GB11734@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <48B4A577.3020303@snapgear.com> <48B4AE68.4040205@snapgear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=arah67lYpOjwhifSAk+sXbdcginZwiBDGdt0oLLWb58=; b=MrHHsm5y3tGw8BHPeYaJdYXRSL+hfWlQaZVh2g+jClvy5ERsZieDnhahneKMjD8ZGA Lp2831RZ4rukCdoLIuQVHFtbR7ZNJf2PLtNgEyop09JM7XeZXKpPkyrr4VMJ3n6AxqdZ /y4xEBocGszJGY1aXXY50SAM4FJmQZRaq18A8= In-Reply-To: <48B4AE68.4040205-XXXsiaCtIV5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Greg Ungerer Cc: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Rusty Russell , "Alan D. Brunelle" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , linux-embedded-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Greg Ungerer wrote: > > And the pressure will still be on in _real_ products to reduce > the RAM footprint as much as possible. There are exceptions but > generally less is cheaper. Simple economics really. Well, sure - but the industry as a whole seems to have gone the other way - do more with more at the similar or lower price points! By that definition of less is better we should try and make the kernel memory pageable (or has someone already done that?) - Windows does it, by default ;) Parag From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753817AbYH0CQ2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:16:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752018AbYH0CQS (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:16:18 -0400 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.225]:16025 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751865AbYH0CQR (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:16:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=IKpLc37nNJyKzYkuFunM9Xt9B/7XxRcepeyhTSr0AE8imT0WdbhuyzLxzScPigXhg7 t6AWjJ9n6QDmsHkQiuNl6Upu+995gJh5ldH5mZst8tAbFajaLV0HyrjZ4oqOjSVDjxg8 pRM98HSC9CNtfTEDCYQwvHa8MmJab1bdOuG6M= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:16:16 -0400 From: "Parag Warudkar" To: "Greg Ungerer" Subject: Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Adrian Bunk" , "Rusty Russell" , "Alan D. Brunelle" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Kernel Testers List" , "Andrew Morton" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "Ingo Molnar" , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <48B4AE68.4040205@snapgear.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080826183051.GB10925@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080826205916.GB11734@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <48B4A577.3020303@snapgear.com> <48B4AE68.4040205@snapgear.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Greg Ungerer wrote: > > And the pressure will still be on in _real_ products to reduce > the RAM footprint as much as possible. There are exceptions but > generally less is cheaper. Simple economics really. Well, sure - but the industry as a whole seems to have gone the other way - do more with more at the similar or lower price points! By that definition of less is better we should try and make the kernel memory pageable (or has someone already done that?) - Windows does it, by default ;) Parag