Re: ACPI Exception AE_NO_MEMORY

[Andrew Doran <ad%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 01:38:53PM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 01:05:02PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > A question: Can a RAM failure (parity error) cause an ACPI exception?  If 
> > not,
> > what are the common reasons for such exceptions?
> 
> As I noted already, this is malloc(9) returning ENOMEM and ACPI complaining
> about it (ENOMEM -> AE_NO_MEMORY). The path where this occurs in ACPI is
> related to interrupts, so it is pretty serious as far as ACPI is concerned.

Why is it doing M_NOWAIT allocations?  NOWAIT == fail.