Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo

From: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky (znmeb@aracnet.com)
Date: Sun Sep 15 2002 - 12:23:24 EST


On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Dave Hansen wrote:
> >> It is often hard to tell
> >> whether this is because the area is too small, or just too fragmented. This
> LDT's were formerly allocated in vmallocspace. This presented difficulties
> with many simultaneous threaded applications. Also, given that there is
> zero vmallocspace OOM recovery now present in the kernel some method of
> monitoring this aspect of system behavior up until the point of failure is
> useful for detecting further problem areas (LDT's were addressed by using
> non-vmalloc allocations).
>
> Also, dynamic vmalloc allocations may very well be starved by boot-time
> allocations on systems where much vmallocspace is required for IO memory.
> The failure mode of such is effectively deadlock, since they block
> indefinitely waiting for permanent boot-time allocations to be freed up.

Thank you!! How difficult would it be to back-port this to 2.4.18?

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