Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752154AbZJTNik (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:38:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752078AbZJTNik (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:38:40 -0400 Received: from mail-a02.ithnet.com ([217.64.83.97]:59992 "HELO ithnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752058AbZJTNij (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:38:39 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:38:38 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: linux-kernel Subject: page allocation failure message kernel 2.6.31.4 (tty-related) Message-Id: <20091020153838.665bc39c.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3803 Lines: 57 Hello all, is this something to worry about, I saw several of those: Oct 20 11:25:41 box kernel: ssh: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20 Oct 20 11:25:41 box kernel: Pid: 2970, comm: ssh Tainted: G M 2.6.31.4 #1 Oct 20 11:25:41 box kernel: Call Trace: Oct 20 11:25:41 box kernel: [] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x404/0x446 Oct 20 11:25:41 box kernel: [] ? cache_alloc_refill+0x249/0x42d Oct 20 11:25:41 box kernel: [] ? __kmalloc+0x67/0x9e Oct 20 11:25:41 box kernel: [] ? tty_buffer_request_room+0xa9/0x112 Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? tty_insert_flip_string+0x24/0x90 Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? pty_write+0x25/0x3f Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? n_tty_write+0x23d/0x2d5 Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x8 Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? tty_write+0x144/0x1b3 Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? n_tty_write+0x0/0x2d5 Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? tty_write+0x0/0x1b3 Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? vfs_write+0x84/0x105 Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? sys_write+0x3c/0x63 Oct 20 11:25:42 box kernel: [] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x22 Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: DMA per-cpu: Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: Normal per-cpu: Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 193 Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 46 Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: HighMem per-cpu: Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 157 Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 142 Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: Active_anon:89762 active_file:96664 inactive_anon:23257 Oct 20 11:25:44 box kernel: inactive_file:119147 unevictable:0 dirty:53 writeback:0 unstable:0 Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: free:569624 slab:38452 mapped:14421 pagetables:977 bounce:0 Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: DMA free:3488kB min:64kB low:80kB high:96kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:8980kB inactive_file:3024kB unevictable:0kB present:15804kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaima Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 865 3698 3698 Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: Normal free:5468kB min:3728kB low:4660kB high:5592kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:324840kB inactive_file:330196kB unevictable:0kB present:885944kB pages_scanned:0 Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 22669 22669 Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: HighMem free:2269540kB min:512kB low:3564kB high:6616kB active_anon:359048kB inactive_anon:93028kB active_file:52836kB inactive_file:143368kB unevictable:0kB present:2901640kB page Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: DMA: 172*4kB 6*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 3*64kB 2*128kB 3*256kB 3*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3488kB Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: Normal: 1232*4kB 83*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 5592kB Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: HighMem: 45*4kB 80*8kB 69*16kB 29*32kB 29*64kB 22*128kB 14*256kB 9*512kB 3*1024kB 3*2048kB 548*4096kB = 2269540kB Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: 216788 total pagecache pages Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: 0 pages in swap cache Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: Free swap = 2104472kB Oct 20 11:25:45 box kernel: Total swap = 2104472kB -- Regards, Stephan -- 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/