From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265297AbUAAEEf (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:04:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265299AbUAAEEf (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:04:35 -0500 Received: from mail.rdslink.ro ([193.231.236.20]:41109 "EHLO mail.rdslink.ro") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265297AbUAAEEd (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:04:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 06:05:29 +0200 (EET) From: caszonyi@rdslink.ro X-X-Sender: sony@grinch.ro Reply-To: Calin Szonyi To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory management problem with 2.6.0 In-Reply-To: <20031227194144.54d052d1.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20031227194144.54d052d1.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: > caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote: > > > > I have a small script: > > #!/bin/sh > > umount /mnt/cdrom > > eject /dev/hdb > > echo "Invalid system disk" > > echo "Insert and press any key when ready" > > read junk > > eject -t /dev/hdb > > sleep 1 > > mount /mnt/cdrom > > /usr/sbin/hdparm -E 10 /dev/hdb > > > > It works all the time but today gave me this: > > > > In the logs I had: > > Dec 27 19:06:16 grinch kernel: eject: page allocation failure. order:4, > > mode:0xd0 > > Please, try > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0/2.6.0-mm1/broken-out/cdrom-allocation-try-harder.patch > > and let me know? > for cdrom it *seems* to work. The problem continues however for other applications It is not specific to the ide-cd driver. The same problem happens sometimes with mplayer also Dec 30 22:07:12 grinch kernel: mplayer: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21