Re: kmem_alloc: NULL ptr (name=unknown) - is it a serious problem?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 07:39:42PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:

> I found a couple of these annoying messages at the beginning of kernel
> startup.  It seems that some subsystems are requesting regions
> (request_region()) before kernel even initialize its memory.
> 
> It appears to me this reservation is just for mutual exclusive access to
> some memory region.  Since I have a static system (no PnP and hot swap
> etc), so I can safely ignore them. 
> 
> Does that make sense?

Not really.  The kernel initializes all devices long after memory
managment, see init/main.c:start_kernel().  So the simple suggestion
would be to delay initialization.

  Ralf