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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Shubhang Kaushik OS <Shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: "ampere-linux-kernel@lists.amperecomputing.com"
	<ampere-linux-kernel@lists.amperecomputing.com>,
	"cl@linux.com" <cl@linux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vmalloc: Modify the alloc_vmap_area() error message for better diagnostics
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:35:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zl5TSbHZJbtM4xIX@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MN2PR01MB5902582BA403FB9FA12816A6F5FF2@MN2PR01MB5902.prod.exchangelabs.com>

On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 09:30:54PM +0000, Shubhang Kaushik OS wrote:
> 'vmap allocation for size %lu failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size'
> The above warning is seen in the kernel functionality for allocation of
> the restricted virtual memory range till exhaustion.
> 
> This message is misleading because 'vmalloc=' is not a valid kernel
> parameter on a number of platforms, in particular it is not supported
> on arm64. With the update, the output gets modified to include the function

Why not fix arm64?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-03 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-03 21:30 Shubhang Kaushik OS
2024-06-03 23:35 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
     [not found]   ` <3329c844-509b-8769-01b6-a191b60bee35@linux.com>
2024-06-04  2:30     ` Anshuman Khandual

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