From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mundt Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:13:17 +0000 Subject: Re: Kernel fails on Dreamcast - results of bisection Message-Id: <20090322111317.GA16675@linux-sh.org> List-Id: References: <1237675045.27611.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1237675045.27611.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:39:25PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > (I am now getting a lot of messages about failures of the udev script - > possibly because I have just turned a lot of debugging stuff on - in any > case the system does boot and works with that commit reverted). > These messages are about allocation failures, the exact same thing that leads to your OOM. (It does help to actually read the error messages rather than dismiss them as superfluous). While it is possible that the timer patch pushed you over the edge on memory allocation, nothing else suggests that you have pinpointed the real problem. Obviously udev did not used to hit allocation failures, and we need to know when that started, or what you did to your environment that causes it.