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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc4-git1 -- iwl3945: Can not allocate SKB buffers
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:21:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234214500.4175.255.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a44ae5cd0902091312t50f31689xe3bc56a25a0ff502@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090209_221302_952960_F4B2EC25)

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On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 16:12 -0500, Miles Lane wrote:
> [12506.627936] iwl3945: Can not allocate SKB buffers

So iwl3945 prints out that it's out of memory, but probably uses
__GFP_NOWARN.

> [12544.530789] java: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x4020
> [12544.530798] Pid: 21292, comm: java Not tainted 2.6.29-rc4-git1 #2
> [12544.530801] Call Trace:
> [12544.530812]  [<ffffffff8028f12d>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x423/0x442
> [12544.530820]  [<ffffffff804cbb4f>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x52/0x16f
> [12544.530826]  [<ffffffff802b13df>] alloc_slab_page+0x20/0x26
> [12544.530830]  [<ffffffff802b1624>] __slab_alloc+0x23f/0x527
> [12544.530835]  [<ffffffff804cbb4f>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x52/0x16f
> [12544.530839]  [<ffffffff804cbb4f>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x52/0x16f
> [12544.530844]  [<ffffffff802b23db>] __kmalloc+0xbc/0x102
> [12544.530848]  [<ffffffff804cbb4f>] pskb_expand_head+0x52/0x16f
> [12544.530854]  [<ffffffff805a0c8b>] ieee80211_skb_resize+0x91/0xca
> [12544.530858]  [<ffffffff805a16fd>] ieee80211_master_start_xmit+0x260/0x4c3

and here we have pskb_expand_head failing to allocate memory. And an
order 1 allocation too. Are you saying wireless has a memory leak?

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-09 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-09 21:12 Miles Lane
2009-02-09 21:21 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-02-09 22:06   ` Miles Lane

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