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xen-ia64-devel
[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: blkbk/netbk modules fail to load on fedora xen/ia64
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Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>, xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: blkbk/netbk modules fail to load on fedora xen/ia64 |
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Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:32:29 +0900 |
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Hi, Aron and all
>> We may have to change dom0_mem of FC6 default to 1GB.
>> But I think the best fix is (1) statically link the modules.
>> (Because all kernel-xen need blkbk/netbk and xenblk/net.
>> ide module is also static link. And because xen community member
>> test the statically linked modules, I think the statically linked
>> modules is stabler than the dynamic linked modlues.)
>
>I don't mind asking RH to statically link the modules if there is good
>reason. However I don't understand why it is needed. 512M is a lot
>of memory! How can it be filled to the extent that the blkbk/netbk
>modules won't load? What are their requirements?
>
Please see the following error message.
FATAL: Error inserting blkbk
(/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2566.fc6xen/kernel/drivers/xen/
blkback/blkbk.ko): Cannot allocate memory
modprobe: page allocation failure. order:8, mode:0xd0
blkbk.ko request order8 pages in blkif_init().
order8 pages is very big.
page_alloc() probably fail when it is requested order8 pages,
because page_alloc() must return contiguos pages.
Especially after boot and terminate some processes,
page_alloc() is hard to allocate order8 pages.
So when dom0_mem=1G, page_allo() is easier to allocate them
than dom0_mem=512M.
And when statically linked modules, page_alloc() is the easest
to allocate them.
I think implementation of blk/netbk.ko is not good.
But I think statically linked modules is the best solution in your
solutions.
And I think this issue is happened in the case of not only ia64,
but also x86.
(In the case of x86, default size of dom0_mem is physcal memory size.
So this issue is hard to be happened.)
Please commets.
FYI
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202971
Best Regards,
Akio Takebe
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