On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:40:19PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote:
> Neil Horman wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:16:20PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Neil,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>The best way I can think to do that is take a look at /proc/slabinfo.
> >>>That will
> >>>likely give you a pointer to which area of code is eating up your memory.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>OK. I will monitor the /proc/slabinfo file.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Based on the sysrq-m info you posted it looks like due to fragmentation
> >>>the
> >>>largest chunk of memory you can allocate is 2MB (perhaps less depending
> >>>on
> >>>address space availability). If you can build a test kernel to do a
> >>>show_state
> >>>rather than a show_mem at the beginning of oom_kil, then you should be
> >>>able to
> >>>tell who is trying to do an allocation that leads to kswapd calling
> >>>out_of_memory.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Neil, I'm trying to recompile the kernel source 2.4.21-32.0.1 and get
> >>some error messages:
> >>
> >>In file included from
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
> >> from
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/list.h:6,
> >> from
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:12,
> >> from 3w-xxxx.c:172:
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/asm/processor.h:61: warning:
> >>parameter names (without types) in function declaration
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/asm/processor.h:61: field
> >>`loops_per_jiffy_R_ver_str' declared as a function
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/asm/processor.h:84: invalid
> >>suffix on integer constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/asm/processor.h:84: syntax error
> >>before numeric constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/asm/processor.h:84: warning:
> >>function declaration isn't a prototype
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/asm/processor.h:269: invalid
> >>suffix on integer constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/asm/processor.h:269: syntax
> >>error before numeric constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/asm/processor.h:269: warning:
> >>function declaration isn't a prototype
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/asm/processor.h:273: warning:
> >>parameter names (without types) in function declaration
> >>In file included from 3w-xxxx.c:172:
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:190: invalid
> >>suffix on integer constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:190: syntax error
> >>before numeric constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:190:
> >>`inter_module_register_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a
> >>function
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:190: warning:
> >>function declaration isn't a prototype
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:191: invalid
> >>suffix on integer constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:191: syntax error
> >>before numeric constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:191:
> >>`inter_module_unregister_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a
> >>function
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:191: warning:
> >>function declaration isn't a prototype
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:192:
> >>`inter_module_get_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:192: warning:
> >>parameter names (without types) in function declaration
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:193:
> >>`inter_module_get_request_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a
> >>function
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:193: warning:
> >>parameter names (without types) in function declaration
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:194: invalid
> >>suffix on integer constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:194: syntax error
> >>before numeric constant
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:194:
> >>`inter_module_put_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:194: warning:
> >>function declaration isn't a prototype
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:203:
> >>`try_inc_mod_count_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h:203: warning:
> >>parameter names (without types) in function declaration
> >>make[3]: *** [3w-xxxx_10200033.o] Error 1
> >>make[3]: Leaving directory
> >>`/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/drivers/addon/3w-xxxx_10200033'
> >>make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_3w-xxxx_10200033] Error 2
> >>make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/drivers/addon'
> >>make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_addon] Error 2
> >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/drivers'
> >>make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
> >>
> >>Is there any relationship between the sysrq-m changes to do show_state()
> >>rather than a show_mem() and the compiling erros?
> >>
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/prefetch.h, line 13:
> >> #include <asm/processor.h>
> >>
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/list.h ,line 6:
> >> #include <linux/prefetch.h>
> >>
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/include/linux/module.h, line 12:
> >> #include <linux/list.h>
> >>
> >>3w-xxxx.c, line 172:
> >> #include <linux/module.h>
> >>
> >>Any ideia about the kernel compiling erros?
> >>
> >>(If I try to recompile a kernel.org kernel, it is compiled fine).
> >>
> >>Thanks again.
> >>
> >>Márcio.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >I honestly don't know. I expect you haven't patched something correctly,
> >have
> >you built the source tree with rpmbuild, or are you just extracting the
> >tar file
> >from the rpm?
> >Neil
> >
> >
> >
I honestly have no idea. Suffice it to say, I never build out of the
kernel-source package. Better to use the kernel src rpm, do an rpmbuild -bp on
the kernel src rpm, setting your target arch accordingly. I have no problems
with that on any RHEL kernels.
Neil
> I'm using the kernel-source package and trying to compiling the
> source (in /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory) with "make config", "make dep",
> "make clean", "make bzImage", "make modules" and "make
> modules_install". I also try to compile a RHEL3 kernel-source without
> the sysrq-m changes on other RHEL3 systems and get the same errors...
>
> If I try to compile a kernel source provide by kernel.org, I don't
> get the errors above, and the kernel compile works. When I try to
> compile the RHEL3 kernel-source, the "make config", "make dep", "make
> clean" and "make bzImage" commands works fine but when I run "make
> modules" command I get the errors above. I think that is some issue with
> the RHEL3 kernel-source package because other kernel sources (not Red
> Hat kernel) compile without problems.
>
> I will try to compile the kernel using rpmbuild and check the
> results, plus the slabinfo informations.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Márcio.
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