Comment 0 for bug 1088433

On a Romley box, the following message is displayed in the logs:

[ 8.294573] PERCPU: allocation failed, size=304 align=32, alloc from reserved chunk failed
[ 8.294578] Pid: 1490, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.5.0-20-generic #31-Ubuntu
[ 8.294579] Call Trace:
[ 8.294597] [<ffffffff81143924>] pcpu_alloc+0x974/0x9d0
[ 8.294604] [<ffffffff810b185a>] ? each_symbol_section+0x2a/0x70
[ 8.294607] [<ffffffff810b18d1>] ? find_symbol+0x31/0x70
[ 8.294610] [<ffffffff81143c43>] __alloc_reserved_percpu+0x13/0x20
[ 8.294613] [<ffffffff810b413a>] layout_and_allocate+0x2fa/0xaf0
[ 8.294615] [<ffffffff810b4a29>] load_module+0xf9/0x1170
[ 8.294630] [<ffffffff810b5af2>] sys_init_module+0x52/0x230
[ 8.294640] [<ffffffff8168b969>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 8.294642] kvm: Could not allocate 304 bytes percpu data

Reproduced with kernel from quantal-release and quantal-proposed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: linux-image-3.5.0-20-generic 3.5.0-20.31
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-20.31-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-20-generic x86_64
AlsaDevices:
 total 0
 crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 1 Dec 10 10:54 seq
 crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 33 Dec 10 10:54 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay'
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord'
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iw'
Date: Mon Dec 10 11:03:33 2012
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=c595dd75-dab5-4fcd-a089-302addcaef96
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig'
MachineType: Intel Corporation LH Pass
MarkForUpload: True
PciMultimedia:

ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:
 TERM=screen-bce
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-20-generic root=UUID=58f9a800-2e0c-4da5-9d94-c4bb4bed4fa2 ro quiet
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.5.0-20-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.5.0-20-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.95
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill'
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/30/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: SE5C600.86B.99.99.2050.043020121425
dmi.board.asset.tag: ....................
dmi.board.name: S4600LH....
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: ..........
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ....................
dmi.chassis.type: 23
dmi.chassis.vendor: ...............................
dmi.chassis.version: ..................
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrSE5C600.86B.99.99.2050.043020121425:bd04/30/2012:svnIntelCorporation:pnLHPass:pvr....................:rvnIntelCorporation:rnS4600LH....:rvr..........:cvn...............................:ct23:cvr..................:
dmi.product.name: LH Pass
dmi.product.version: ....................
dmi.sys.vendor: Intel Corporation