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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 16:48:20 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 16:44:57 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> I guess a medium-term fix would be to add a boot parameter to override
> PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM - it's hard to justify increasing it permanently just
> for the benefit of the tiny minority of kernels which are hand-built with
> lots of drivers in vmlinux.
> 

That's not right, is it.  PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM covers vmlinux and all loaded
modules, so if vmlinux blows it all then `modprobe the-same-stuff' will
blow it as well.

> But first let's find out where it all went.

I agree with that person.