From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <397F0006.24762F7@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:13:10 -0700 From: Cal Erickson Reply-To: cal_erickson@mvista.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Flynn CC: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: kmem_grow: Called nonatomically from int - size-32? References: <67505026E29DD311A9AA00508B7315F33B735B@EXCHANGE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Mike, You are trying to get a new piece of cache. The message occurs when there is not one available. After the message appears the system goes into a spinlock and tries again. This continues until the request is satisfied. This could be an indication that you have a memory leak somewhere and are not returning memory. Cal Mike Flynn wrote: > We have been hacking away on a TI 16C554 quad UART driver based on > serial.c. The driver supports the TI chip on our motherboard which hosts an > Embedded Planet CLLF with an MOT 860T processor. We have all four ports > working with interrupts, but we are seeing this message several times before > the system hangs: "kmem_grow: Called nonatomically from int - size-32." It > is issued from linux/mm/slab.c and obviously has something to do with shared > memory. Does anyone have insight as to what we are (or are not doing) to > upset slab.c? > > Thanks, > > Mike Flynn > Principal Software Engineer > Enerdyne Technologies > 8402 Magnolia Ave. > Suite C > Santee, CA 92041 > Voice: 619-562-3061 > Fax: 619-562-8802 > MFlynn@Enerdyne.com > -- =========================================================================== Cal Erickson MontaVista Software Inc. Customer Support Engineer 490 Potrero Avenue Phone (408) 328-0304 Sunnyvale CA 94085 Fax (408) 328-9204 e-mail cal_erickson@mvista.com Pager 877-566-2012 support 1-800-759-8888 pin 202-7489 web http://www.mvista.com support e-mail: support@mvista.com eCode: http://cal@work.com.ecode.com =========================================================================== ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/