From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79EE6B004D for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:31:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ultimate100.geggus.net ([2a01:198:297:1::1]) by nerdhammel.gnuher.de (envelope-from ) with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) id 1N1Ecj-00011G-OI for linux-mm@kvack.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:31:45 +0200 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:31:21 +0200 From: Sven Geggus Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Candidate fix for increased number of GFP_ATOMIC failures V2 Message-ID: <20091023073120.GA16987@geggus.net> References: <1256221356-26049-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1256221356-26049-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Frans Pop , Jiri Kosina , Karol Lewandowski , Tobias Oetiker , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , David Miller , Reinette Chatre , Kalle Valo , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , Mohamed Abbas , Jens Axboe , "John W. Linville" , Pekka Enberg , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Stephan von Krawczynski , Kernel Testers List , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: Mel Gorman schrieb am Donnerstag, den 22. Oktober um 16:22 Uhr: > [No BZ ID] Kernel crash on 2.6.31.x (kcryptd: page allocation failure..) > This apparently is easily reproducible, particular in comparison to > the other reports. The point of greatest interest is that this is > order-0 GFP_ATOMIC failures. Sven, I'm hoping that you in particular > will be able to follow the tests below as you are the most likely > person to have an easily reproducible situation. I will see what I can do on the weekend. Unfortunately the crash happens on a somewhat important machine and afterwards the Software-RAID needs a resync which takes a few hours. Sven -- "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly" (Henry Spencer) /me is giggls@ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org