Re: xfsdump having problems dumping attributes again (cannot allocate memory)

Dave Chinner
2013-04-04T03:52:45Z

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 03:52:49PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> Note -- I might have more attributes than some as the disks are shared via samba
> w/windows
> and samba stores ACL and xattr info from windows in xfs's attrs...
>
>
> xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of root attributes for nondir ino
> 3412893285: Cannot allocate memory (12)

....
> [1007383.689492] xfsdump: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x10c0d0
....
> [1007383.689531] [<ffffffff81143a54>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x34/0xe0
> [1007383.689534] [<ffffffff81146546>] __kmalloc+0x186/0x190
> [1007383.689541] [<ffffffff8124263c>] xfs_attrlist_by_handle+0x8c/0x110
> [1007383.689544] [<ffffffff81243487>] xfs_file_ioctl+0x437/0xb60

So it's the attribute handle interfaces that need the vmalloc
treatment here, just like has been done for all the other attribute
interfaces....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com