free_list / free_size messages

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Mar 16 03:11:25 EST 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 08:46 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> I have seen this a bit on my iPAQ 3800 with a familiar 2.4.19-hh36 kernel. I just guessed it was 
> informative and I tend to ignore it. Should I try and reproduce it for debugging?

Yes please. It should be harmless; it's just an accounting screwup. We
seem to have placed a block on the free_list which doesn't actually have
any significant amount of free space in it at all.

-- 
dwmw2





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