[DRBD-user] drbd0: could not kmalloc() nbh

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Jun 1 09:48:19 CEST 2004

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/ 2004-05-30 11:34:55 -0400
\ Tim Tregubov:
> 
> >see if this below patch helps.
> >
> >-#define GFP_DRBD GFP_ATOMIC
> >+#define GFP_DRBD GFP_NOIO
> >
> 
> 
> Hi Lars -
> 
> So here's the strange thing.  After my last cry for help things seemed 
> to right themselves.   All I did was turn off heartbeat altogether.   
> and managed drbd by hand.  trying my test from the secondary(made 
> primary) etc.   It all seemed to work.  Then I  rebooted to a clean 
> state on both machines (the only thing changed was that I turned off 
> auto-failback in heartbeat).  Everything still worked!   Strange.   I'm 
> perplexed.  I'm assuming that all of this was simply circumstantial and 
> that it would have worked anyway, but the strange thing is that I was 
> able to repeat the problem I had 3 times.. before all of the sudden it 
> started working fine...  mysterious.

Hmmm...

> I rebuilt drbd with your patch anyway though and am trying my tests 
> again(so far no scary errors!) :-)
> 
> So this begs the question of why it would have happened in the first 
> place?   Was I having some weird memory usage that I can't replicate 
> now?  Have you seen this problem before?

Dunno; probably; no.

:)

> Thanks so much for everything btw!

Thanks,

	Lars Ellenberg



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