Re: [Bug 8464] New: autoreconf: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x84020

[mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman)]

On (11/05/07 07:56), Nicolas Mailhot didst pronounce:
> Le jeudi 10 mai 2007 a 16:01 -0700, Christoph Lameter a ecrit :
> > On Fri, 11 May 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > 
> > > Nicholas, could you backout the patch
> > > dont-group-high-order-atomic-allocations.patch and test again please?
> > > The following patch has the same effect. Thanks
> > 
> > Great! Thanks.
> 
> The proposed patch did not apply
> 
> + cd /builddir/build/BUILD
> + rm -rf linux-2.6.21
> + /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /builddir/build/SOURCES/linux-2.6.21.tar.bz2
> + tar -xf -
> + STATUS=0
> + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
> + cd linux-2.6.21
> ++ /usr/bin/id -u
> + '[' 499 = 0 ']'
> ++ /usr/bin/id -u
> + '[' 499 = 0 ']'
> + /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
> + echo 'Patch #2 (2.6.21-mm2.bz2):'
> Patch #2 (2.6.21-mm2.bz2):
> + /usr/bin/bzip2 -d
> + patch -p1 -s
> + STATUS=0
> + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
> + echo 'Patch #3 (md-improve-partition-detection-in-md-array.patch):'
> Patch #3 (md-improve-partition-detection-in-md-array.patch):
> + patch -p1 -R -s
> + echo 'Patch #4 (bug-8464.patch):'
> Patch #4 (bug-8464.patch):
> + patch -p1 -s
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
> .rej
> 6 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file mm/page_alloc.c.rej
> 
> Backing out dont-group-high-order-atomic-allocations.patch worked and

Odd, because they should have been the same thing. As long as it
worked..

> seems to have cured the system so far (need to charge it a bit longer to
> be sure)
> 

The longer it runs the better, particularly under load and after
updatedb has run. Thanks a lot for testing

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab

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