[openib-general] Re: Page allocation failures & kdapltest oops

[James Lentini]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Hal Rosenstock wrote:

> > Since we don't check for a kmalloc failure in DT_Tdep_PT_Printf, this 
> > oops occurs:
> > 
> > > Sep 26 10:29:30 hal kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer 
> > > dereference at virtual address 00000004
> > 
> > I've checked in the patch below to fix that, but this is not the root 
> > of the problem. 
> 
> I'll try it with the patch and let you know how it behaves. When it
> still runs out of memory will it fail more gracefully ? I understand it
> won't fix the root cause of running out of memory.

It should behave more gracefully. Thanks for testing.