| Date | Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:26:05 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod |
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Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> wrote: > > Le 04.02.2005 19:33, Andrew Morton a écrit : > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/ > > > > loading dm-mod module fails with this message : > > FATAL: Error inserting dm-mod > (/lib/modules/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko): Device or resource busy > > The following line appears in dmesg : > > register_blkdev: failed to get major for device-mapper
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?
Also, we can never generate a major number of zero if the caller passed in major=0. How come?
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