Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264908AbUFTKZO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:25:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265002AbUFTKZO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:25:14 -0400 Received: from smtp107.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.227]:5290 "HELO smtp107.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264908AbUFTKZI (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:25:08 -0400 Message-ID: <40D565FE.1050903@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:25:02 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Linux Kernel Development , Linux/m68k Subject: Re: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1741 Lines: 45 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > While running 2.6.7 on my Amiga, I got: > > | cp: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 > | Call Trace: [<000290a8>] __alloc_pages+0x230/0x250 > | [<00159e9b>] sine_data+0x1142/0x1d95 > | [<0001c9cc>] update_wall_time+0x16/0x3a > | [<000290f2>] __get_free_pages+0x2a/0x3e > | [<0002bc4a>] kmem_getpages+0x24/0xc2 > | [<0002c54c>] cache_grow+0x7c/0x196 > | [<0002c7ae>] cache_alloc_refill+0x148/0x17c > | [<0000220d>] init+0xc3/0xc8 > | [<00001000>] _stext+0x0/0x1000 > | [<0002cc62>] __kmalloc+0x4e/0x6a > | [<000f89be>] alloc_skb+0x3e/0x102 > | [<000d8d90>] ariadne_rx+0xb2/0x208 > | [<0000f204>] scosh+0x1a8/0x540 > | [<000d8936>] ariadne_interrupt+0x70/0x23a > | [<00001000>] _stext+0x0/0x1000 > | [<0000a67c>] amiga_do_irq_list+0x42/0x54 > | [<0000abfa>] cia_handler+0x76/0x80 > | [<00001000>] _stext+0x0/0x1000 > | [<000063c6>] process_int+0x42/0x70 > | [<000051de>] inthandler+0x2a/0x2c > | ... > > But it looks like there are still opportunities to allocate memory: > > | # free > | total used free shared buffers cached > | Mem: 10260 9844 416 0 240 5004 > | -/+ buffers/cache: 4600 5660 > | Swap: 33256 3796 29460 > Not even atomic allocations memory are allowed to consume all memory. A small amount is reserved for memory freeing (which sometimes requires initial memory allocations). The message should be harmless. - 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/