Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265770AbUFTKyq (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:54:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265782AbUFTKyq (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:54:46 -0400 Received: from smtp104.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.223]:21616 "HELO smtp104.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265770AbUFTKyo (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:54:44 -0400 Message-ID: <40D56CF0.2040803@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:54:40 +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: arjanv@redhat.com CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Kernel Development , Linux/m68k , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 References: <40D565FE.1050903@yahoo.com.au> <1087727591.2805.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> In-Reply-To: <1087727591.2805.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> 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: 1193 Lines: 32 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 12:25, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>>| # 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. > > > Since atomic allocations by definition need to be able to cope with > failure, how about a patch like this to not warn for this common and > legit case? > CC'ed Andrew: I think it's his baby. I guess we're at the point where we should quiet down things like this. Although order-0 atomic allocation failures are pretty rare, I'd consider leaving them in. Maybe a CONFIG option? - 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/