Tuesday, May 19, 2015

How to increase vmalloc size [vmalloc: allocation failure]

Hello, So this is what happened, I was working on the graphics driver and testing some GLBenchmark applications to see if everything is smooth and healthy. But one of the test was always failing for unknown reason (at that time). I have put more than couple of hours to debug that. I was ignoring some errors in dmesg (kernel log) that I was getting, May 18 14:53:38 pc-vbox kernel: [412318.373157] vmap allocation for size 37752832 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.May 18 14:53:38 pc-vbox kernel: [412318.373161] vmalloc: allocation...