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? -- Best Regards, Aleksander Adamowski GG#: 274614 ICQ UIN: 19780575 http://olo.ab.altkom.pl
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