From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk"
<viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:29:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050205162945.GA3928@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050205032605.764eedac.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 03:26:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> You've enabled CONFIG_BASE_SMALL and so the major_names[] hashtable has
> just one element. device-mapper uses dynamic major allocation, the range
> of which is limited to the size of the top-level major_names[] array. You
> ran out of slots and register_blkdev() failed.
>
> So for now I guess we must drop base-small-shrink-major_names-hash.patch.
>
> Al, that code looks rather crappy. Shouldn't we be using an idr tree or
> something?
It'd be nice to see major_names just gone completely. It's only used
for /proc/devices output, and with the infrastucture for easily sharing
majors that one is completely misleading..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-05 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-04 18:33 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2005-02-04 20:11 ` [patch] 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: fix swsusp with gcc 3.4 Adrian Bunk
2005-02-04 21:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-02-05 9:32 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-04 20:44 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 (compile stats) John Cherry
2005-02-04 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <1107553914.14618.12.camel@cherrypit.pdx.osdl.net>
2005-02-04 23:31 ` John Cherry
2005-02-04 21:08 ` Add changelog entries for bk-trees? Sam Ravnborg
2005-02-04 22:17 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Sean Neakums
2005-02-04 23:57 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-05 0:05 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Sean Neakums
2005-02-05 0:16 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-05 0:54 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-05 10:48 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Sean Neakums
2005-02-05 22:35 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-04 23:50 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: device_resume() hangs on Athlon64 Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-02-05 6:35 ` bk-usb is now safe (was 2.6.11-rc3-mm1) Greg KH
2005-02-05 8:47 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod Laurent Riffard
2005-02-05 11:26 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-05 13:25 ` Laurent Riffard
2005-02-05 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-02-05 20:03 ` Al Viro
2005-02-05 12:23 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2005-02-05 12:44 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: kobject_register fails for processor on Athlon64 Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-02-05 13:11 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-02-05 14:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-05 14:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-02-05 19:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 19:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-02-07 8:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-07 12:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-02-08 11:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-09 16:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-02-10 0:22 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume [update] Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-02-05 19:48 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume Pavel Machek
2005-02-05 19:47 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-05 18:10 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Rogério Brito
2005-02-05 18:43 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Jurriaan
2005-02-05 22:28 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Rogério Brito
2005-02-05 22:45 ` irq 10: nobody cared! (was: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1) Rogério Brito
2005-02-05 22:48 ` Rogério Brito
2005-02-06 2:36 ` William Park
2005-02-06 9:07 ` Rogério Brito
2005-02-12 22:21 ` William Park
2005-02-12 22:47 ` Rogério Brito
2005-02-12 23:21 ` William Park
2005-02-12 23:50 ` Rogério Brito
2005-02-13 1:41 ` William Park
2005-02-13 16:37 ` Rogério Brito
2005-02-13 16:56 ` Rogério Brito
2005-02-13 18:49 ` [Partially solved] " Rogério Brito
2005-02-06 10:07 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Peter Osterlund
2005-02-06 10:33 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-06 12:14 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Peter Osterlund
2005-02-06 21:22 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Peter Osterlund
2005-02-07 17:22 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Robert Love
2005-02-08 23:08 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Peter Osterlund
2005-02-06 12:30 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Joseph Fannin
2005-02-09 3:58 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Marcos D. Marado Torres
2005-02-09 4:54 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2005-02-09 8:55 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Barry K. Nathan
2005-02-09 5:00 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-02-10 4:12 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2005-02-10 4:32 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 Barry K. Nathan
2005-02-09 5:59 ` 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: two oops on startup Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-02-09 6:09 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-09 6:14 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
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