In particular, I found I was hitting the max-file limit in the VFS, and the EFILE was being magically transformed into ENOMEM. Confusion reigns.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c index 396e60c..f8625e2 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ int drm_gem_object_init(struct drm_device *dev, obj->dev = dev; obj->filp = shmem_file_setup("drm mm object", size, VM_NORESERVE); if (IS_ERR(obj->filp)) - return -ENOMEM; + return PTR_ERR(obj->filp);

kref_init(&obj->refcount); atomic_set(&obj->handle_count, 0);