[PATCH] n_tty: use kmalloc() instead of vmalloc() to avoid crash on armada-xp

[Stas Sergeev]

12.03.2015 15:33, Peter Hurley пишет:
> On 03/11/2015 10:24 AM, Stas Sergeev wrote:
>> However, while testing, I've suddenly got another crash happened
>> a bit earlier than the previous one used to happen: (OOM? How??)
>> ---
>> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
>> [    0.000000] Linux version 4.0.0-rc2-00137-gb672c98-dirty
>> (root at host-010-117) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) )
>> #2 SMP 5
>> [    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [562f5842] revision 2 (ARMv7),
>> cr=10c5387d
>> [    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, PIPT instruction
>> cache
>> [    0.000000] Machine model: Marvell Armada XP Development Board
>> DB-MV784MP-GP
>> [    0.000000] Ignoring memory block 0x100000000 - 0x200000000
> Once you patch your bootloader, you'll want to configure your kernel
> for CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=y to enable the high 4GB of memory you have, as
> it's being ignored in this config right now (as shown above and in
> the oom message below).
Hi Peter, thanks for this hint.
I actually already tried with lpae, and, except for the missing
256Mb, everything works properly. :)