From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267214AbUHSSgi (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:36:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267219AbUHSSgh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:36:37 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:33287 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267214AbUHSSgd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:36:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:36:31 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: jmerkey@comcast.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@drdos.com Subject: Re: 2.6.8 kmem_cache_alloc barfs Message-ID: <20040819193631.A12192@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , jmerkey@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@drdos.com References: <081920041818.4794.4124EEEB0009B419000012BA2200748184970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <081920041818.4794.4124EEEB0009B419000012BA2200748184970A059D0A0306@comcast.net>; from jmerkey@comcast.net on Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:18:20PM +0000 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.