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Fengguang is running into a warning from the buddy allocator: > swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x14040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null) > CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.17.0-rc1 #262 > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 > Call Trace: ... > __kmalloc+0x14b/0x180: ____cache_alloc at mm/slab.c:3127 > stm_register_device+0xf3/0x5c0: stm_register_device at drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c:695 ... Which is basically a result of the stm class trying to allocate ~512kB for the dummy_stm with its default parameters. There's no reason, however, for it not to be vmalloc()ed instead, which is what this patch does. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.