[Xen-devel] rootfs as RAMDisk + Hypervisor: Cannot allocate memory

[Robyn Bachofer <r.bachofer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello world,

i have the follow problem and hope to find help here.

Facts:
- XenparavirtOps-Kernel 2.6.32.23 (jeremys git)
- Xen 4.0.1 (from tarball at xensource)
- rootfs is a ext3 initrd RAMDisk (size 640M (655360)) with 130MB free space

- Hypervisor, Kernel and Ramdisk are booting from a TFTPServer with Syslinux Multiboot (mboot.c32)
-
 Boot parameters: $hypervisor dom0_mem=2048M loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all
 dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin --- $kernel ramdisk_size=655360 
root=/dev/ram0 rw $otheroptions --- $ramdisk

The boot-progress and the system integrity without the XEN-Hypervisor are fine, all works without any errors or problems.
Required modules are loaded without any problems.

With Hypervisor i get various error messages on boot or in system from user space utilities and their modules.
e.g. bonding or iscsi-module:

-----------------------------------------------------------

[hostname ~]# modprobe iscsi_tcp
Warning: at mm/vmalloc.c:108 vmap_page_range_noflush+0x22/0x2e2()
Hardware name: IBM eServer BladeCenter HS21 -[7995A1G]-

Pid: 2344, comm: modprobe Tainted: C       W 2.6.32.23-pvops #2
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffxxxxxxxx>] ? warn_slowpath_common
[<ffffffffxxxxxxxx>] ? vmap_page_range_noflush 

[<ffffffffxxxxxxxx>] ? map_vm_area
[<ffffffffxxxxxxxx>] ? __vmalloc_area_node
[<ffffffffxxxxxxxx>] ? load_module
[<ffffffffxxxxxxxx>] ? do_page_fault

[<ffffffffxxxxxxxx>] ? sys_init_module
[<ffffffffxxxxxxxx>] ? sys_call_fastpath

---[ end trace xxxxxxxx ]---
FATAL: Error inserting iscsi_tcp (/lib/modules/2.6.32.23-pvops/kernel/driver/scsi/iscsi_tcp.ko): Cannot allocate memory
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(or see http://picfront.de/d/7S63 for screenshot of management console)


I have that problem with different hardware.

But the funny is, if the rootfs size 490000 (478MB) and the ramdisk_size 550000 (537MB), all work! (but need more space in filesystem), the filesystem use 476MB).

Perhaps is the problem based on free memory management of xen-hypervisor? (no-bootscrub param. was tested).



Best regards
Thank you for your time!

Robyn
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