Re: Cause for kmem_grow warning?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:12:21 +0100 (BST)

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> I am doing some kernel hacking and I am curious about something.
> What are the most likely causes for a kernel message along the lines of
> "kmem_grow called nonatomically from int-32" popping up every now and
> then? Is it perhaps a memory leak?

Something is doing non atomic memory allocations from an interrupt - it thinks
interrupt 32.

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