Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work

Andrew Morton
2006-07-29T01:25:10Z

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:16:32 -0500
Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 19:15 -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> > I'm doing a build on my home machine now to see if it
> > happens there also.
>
> Well, the timer int 0 problem does not happen on my home machine.
> However, it still crashes in early boot for a different reason.
>
> 2.6.18-rc2 works fine with same config.
>
> In this case the error is:
>
> No per-cpu room for modules

yeah, sorry, that's a known problem which nobody appears to be doing
anything about. The expansion of NR_IRQS gobbles all the percpu memory in
the kstat structure.

I assume you have a large NR_CPUS? Decreasing it should help.