Re: Bug#1031520: maxima: triggers kernel error about memory allocation glitch

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for your report!

GCL based applications probe brk at runtime to determine an upper bound
for its permissible heap.  Running under strace -f is usually helpful to
see if your kernel messages are correlated with this loop.  To my
understanding, if brk triggers a 'no enough memory for the allocation'
condition, it should simply return an error code to the user space
process, and not generate any kernel level difficulties.  brk just
reserves the memory, and does not actually allocate it until it is
written, so no oom machinery should be involved.

Take care,

Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> writes:

> Package: maxima
> Version: 5.46.0-11
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Camm Maguire,
>
> calling maxima generates a kernel message:
>
> kernel: __vm_enough_memory: 1 callbacks suppressed
> kernel: __vm_enough_memory: pid: 13721, comm: maxima, no enough memory for the
> allocation
>
> The second line appears 10 times. I'm using a self-compiled upstream kernel.
> Any idea?
>
> Regards,
> Jörg.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 6.1.11 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=C.utf8, LC_CTYPE=C.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>
> Versions of packages maxima depends on:
> ii  libc6      2.36-8
> ii  libedit2   3.1-20221030-2
> ii  libgmp10   2:6.2.1+dfsg1-1.1
> ii  libtirpc3  1.3.3+ds-1
> ii  libx11-6   2:1.8.3-3
>
> Versions of packages maxima recommends:
> ii  gnuplot-qt [gnuplot-x11]  5.4.4+dfsg1-2+b2
> ii  maxima-share              5.46.0-11
>
> Versions of packages maxima suggests:
> ii  maxima-doc    5.46.0-11
> ii  maxima-emacs  5.46.0-11
> pn  texmacs       <none>
> ii  tk [wish]     8.6.11+1
> pn  xmaxima       <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>

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Camm Maguire                                        camm@maguirefamily.org
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