From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:13:59 +0200 References: <20010828000128Z16263-32386+166@humbolt.nl.linux.org> <3B8CF2BA.5030506@syntegra.com> In-Reply-To: <3B8CF2BA.5030506@syntegra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010829150716Z16100-32383+2280@humbolt.nl.linux.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Kay Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On August 29, 2001 03:48 pm, Andrew Kay wrote: > Here's some 'cut' output from /var/log/messages. There is a lot more > from where this came from. Some of it looks a bit different, I included > it below the first 3 errors. I can post the 165k gzipped messages file > somewhere if someone wants to look at the whole thing. > > __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0). > Call Trace: [] [] [] [] > [] > [] [] [] [] [] > [] > [] [] [] [] [] > [] > [] [] [] [] [] > [] > [] [] [] [] [] > [] > [] [] [] [] [] > [] > [] [] [] [] [] > [] > [] > [similar] > > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On August 28, 2001 12:28 am, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > >> > >>>On August 27, 2001 10:14 pm, Andrew Kay wrote: > >>> > >>>>I am having some rather serious problems with the memory management (i > >>>>think) in the 2.4.x kernels. I am currently on the 2.4.9 and get lots > >>>>of these errors in /var/log/messages. > >>>> > >>Its probably the bounce buffering thingie. > >> > >>I'll send a patch to Linus soon. > >> > > > > That's what I thought too, but I thought, why not give him the patch and be > > sure. OK, it's not a bounce buffer because the allocation isn't __GFP_WAIT (0x10). It's GFP_ATOMIC and there are several hundred of those throughout the kernel so I'm not going to try to guess which one. Could you please pass a few of your backtraces through ksymoops make them meaningful? -- Daniel -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/