Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:32:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:32:10 -0500 Received: from 24.68.61.66.on.wave.home.com ([24.68.61.66]:36871 "HELO sh0n.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:31:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3A98365A.451C4473@sh0n.net> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:31:55 -0500 From: Shawn Starr Organization: sh0n.net - http://www.sh0n.net/spstarr X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Tosatti CC: Mike Galbraith , lkm Subject: Re: [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Patch failed In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Doing so..., Im not sure hot to use ksymoops or where to get that program. I just usually use the sysq and dump but its ugly ;-) Shawn. Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. > > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. > > > > didnt, work, still causing this.. > > Ok, could you please add a line with "BUG();" after the > printk("__alloc_pages: %d-order allocation failed", ..) in mm/page_alloc.c > function __alloc_pages() ? > > This will make you get an oops when an allocation fails and if you decode > it (with ksymoops) we can have a pretty useful backtrace to have more clue > of what's failing. > > TIA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/