[issue1031] panic: hammer_mount: malloc limit exceeded

[Francois Tigeot]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:20:06AM -0000, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> added the comment:
> 
> :I have just upgraded my machine to today's 1.13 (HAMMER 53G) and
> :re-created a test Hammer filesystem. I then ran cpdup to copy /home to
> :the new fs.
> :
> :The exact command was: cpdup -I -v -i0 /home /home.hammer
> :
> :Everything seemed to be ok at first. After about 1 hour, the kernel panicked.
> 
>     Ok, I'll mess with it.  It's a minor issue... HAMMER blowing out its
>     kmalloc bucket is just me forgetting to put in checks in certain places.
>     'H' should fix some of that.

After the 53H commit, the panic does'nt occur anymore.

There's a deadlock instead: after about 5 minutes of copying the machine
stopped responding. No specific message on the console, display frozen.

I tried to break into the debugger with CTRL-ALT-ESC but it didn't change
anything.

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Francois Tigeot