On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:07:35 -0800
chandra seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> I tried to use the controller but having some problems.
> 
> - Created class a,
> - set guarantee to 50(with parent having 100, i expected class a to get 
>   50% of memory in the system). 
> - moved my shell to class a. 
> - Issued a make in the kernel tree.
> It consistently fails with 
> -----------
> make: getcwd: : Cannot allocate memory
> Makefile:313: /scripts/Kbuild.include: No such file or directory
> Makefile:532: /arch/i386/Makefile: No such file or directory
> Can't open perl script "/scripts/setlocalversion": No such file or
> directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `/arch/i386/Makefile'.  Stop.
> -----------
> Note that the compilation succeeds if I move my shell to the default
> class.

I could reproduce this problem.  Could you try the attached patch?

> I got a oops too:

I can't reproduce the oops so far.  Does this oops also occur constantly?