Re: Kernel build fails on ARM: Cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 09:57:06AM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > I don't really see a lot of wasted memory in the zones.  There is 
> > certainly some.  Can you give me sysctl vm from both a working and 
> > non-working kernel after the build is done or fails?
> 
> Try this:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/arm_bcache.1.patch
> 
> Please _do_ notify me whether it compiled and helped with your problem.

Btw, there is a problem while allocating 2GB RAM on armv7 boards
while unmapped_buf_allowed == 1 (default):

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## Starting application at 0x40F00000 ...
KDB: debugger backends: ddb              
KDB: current backend: ddb
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FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #5 r252090M: Sun Jun 23 12:18:31 MSK 2013
    root_at_intel.bsdpad.com:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/home/br/dev/head/sys/ARNDALE arm
FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance.
CPU: Cortex A15 rev 4 (Cortex-A core)
 Supported features: ARM_ISA THUMB2 THUMBEE ARMv4 Security_Ext
 WB disabled EABT branch prediction enabled
LoUU:2 LoC:2 LoUIS:2 
Cache level 1: 
 32KB/64B 2-way data cache WB Read-Alloc Write-Alloc
 32KB/64B 2-way instruction cache Read-Alloc
Cache level 2: 
 1024KB/64B 16-way unified cache WB Read-Alloc Write-Alloc
real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
panic: kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3
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arm_bcache.1.patch resolves the issue above, but forced another one:

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Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0 []...
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately
panic: __rw_wlock_hard: recursing but non-recursive rw pmap pv global _at_ /usr/home/br/dev/head/sys/arm/arm/pmap-v6.c:1289
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and there are no problems at all if unmapped_buf_allowed == 0

-Ruslan