2009-12-22 23:39:39

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: [Bug 14843] New: WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c at ext4 root mount

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:12:52 GMT
[email protected] wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14843
>
> Summary: WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c at ext4 root mount
> Product: Memory Management
> Version: 2.5
> Kernel Version: 2.6.33-rc1
> Platform: All
> OS/Version: Linux
> Tree: Mainline
> Status: NEW
> Severity: normal
> Priority: P1
> Component: Page Allocator
> AssignedTo: [email protected]
> ReportedBy: [email protected]
> Regression: Yes
>
>
> Kernel 2.6.33-rc1 64bits with kmemcheck and other debug options
> Athlon64 3GHz single core
> Acer Aspire 1511LMi
> Bluewhite 64 13 (32 bits port of Slackware)
>
> Since 2.6.33-rc1, I get the following warning at boot when the root ext4
> filesystem is mounted:
> kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread started
> EXT3-fs (hda2): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features
> (240)
> EXT2-fs (hda2): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features
> (240)
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:1220 get_page_from_freelist+0x6a4/0x6c0()

Can we please zap that __GFP_NOFAIL in journal_init_common()?