From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: jmerkey@comcast.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@drdos.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.8 kmem_cache_alloc barfs
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:36:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040819193631.A12192@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <081920041818.4794.4124EEEB0009B419000012BA2200748184970A059D0A0306@comcast.net>; from jmerkey@comcast.net on Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:18:20PM +0000
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:18:20PM +0000, jmerkey@comcast.net wrote:
>
> in 2.6.8 with all features and config options (at least those that will build) with 4GB memory option selected, kmem_cache_alloc crashes when called with requests for 64KB chunks of memory which exceed the kernel address space of 1GB in size rather than returning an out of memory error.
testcase please.
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