L4Linux and USB mass storage

[Andreas Niederl]

Hi,
I'm having problems using a USB connected mass storage device with 
L4Linux. On device detection an out of memory error happens when the 
cache is allocated:

NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Waiting 15sec before mounting root device...
l4lx    | l4lx_thread_create: Created thread 0e.0c (IRQ1)
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 1
input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse as /class/input/input1
   Vendor: ST325082  Model: 3AS               Rev:
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1, order=0
  <0040a605> show_trace+0x15/0x20  <0040a6f7> dump_stack+0x17/0x20
  <0043227b> out_of_memory+0x6b/0x90  <0043336c> __alloc_pages+0x26c/0x2a0
  <004469d4> kmem_getpages+0x34/0xa0  <00447689> cache_grow+0x99/0x180
  <004478ed> cache_alloc_refill+0x17d/0x1c0  <00447af8> 
kmem_cache_alloc+0x48/0x5
0
  <00571fbc> sd_revalidate_disk+0x2c/0x100  <005722ad> sd_probe+0x21d/0x310
  <00512244> driver_probe_device+0x54/0xb0  <005122b0> 
__device_attach+0x10/0x20
  <005118db> bus_for_each_drv+0x4b/0x70  <00512314> device_attach+0x54/0x60
  <00511a05> bus_add_device+0x25/0x90  <00510a5a> device_add+0xda/0x160
  <0056da33> scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x33/0x180  <0056bef9> 
scsi_add_lun+0x199/0x360
  <0056c1db> scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x11b/0x200  <0056c9b1> 
__scsi_scan_target+0xa1/0xe0
  <0056caec> scsi_scan_channel+0x6c/0x90  <0056cb76> 
scsi_scan_host_selected+0x66/0xb0
  <0056cbd4> scsi_scan_host+0x14/0x20  <00594dee> 
usb_stor_scan_thread+0x4e/0x150
  <00424994> kthread+0x94/0xc0  <00407619> kernel_thread_start+0x29/0x30
  <004075ee> ret_kernel_thread_start+0x6/0x8

I'm using L4Linux-2.6.17 and tried it on a machine with 512MB memory 
with 256MB reserved for L4Linux as well as on a machine with 1GB memory 
and 768MB for L4Linux. Delaying the device detection by booting into a 
Ramdisk and then loading the respective modules and udev resulted in the 
same behaviour.

Has anybody else experienced such problems when using USB disks with 
L4Linux?


Regards,
Andi