Aleksander Adamowski
2006-Feb-17  13:19 UTC
[Fedora-xen] Xen on x86_64 and "Could not allocate 8 bytes percpu data" kernel messages
I''ve just booted an Opteron HP Proliant server into 
2.6.15-1.1955_FC5hypervisor fo x86_64.
The machine has booted and network communications are working, but there 
were a couple of suspicious messages on the console during bootup:
"Could not allocate 8 bytes percpu data"
Here''s a longer excerpt from the logs:
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: EXT3 FS on cciss/c0d0p3, internal journal
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with 
ordered data mode.
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev cciss/c0d0p3, 
type ext3), uses xattr
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, 
type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core 
Team
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.4 (8192 buckets, 
65536 max) - 312 bytes per conntrack
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost 
<sfrost@snowman.net>.  http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full 
duplex.
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX 
and off for RX.
Feb 17 14:04:46 domzero2 kernel: Could not allocate 8 bytes percpu data
Feb 17 14:05:00 domzero2 last message repeated 5 times
Feb 17 14:05:12 domzero2 kernel: Bridge firewalling registered
Feb 17 14:11:54 domzero2 kernel: Could not allocate 8 bytes percpu data
Are those messages dangerous?
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Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-Feb-20  15:23 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] Xen on x86_64 and "Could not allocate 8 bytes percpu data" kernel messages
Hi, On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:19 +0100, Aleksander Adamowski wrote:> "Could not allocate 8 bytes percpu data"...> Are those messages dangerous?Depends on where they are coming from. I''ve seen one instance myself (also on the 1.1955 x86_64 dom0), so I''ll have a look into this. If you want to open a bugzilla against kernel-xen, getwill help us to make sure this doesn''t get missed! Thanks, Stephen