From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failures Return With 2.6.9+TSO patch.
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 05:22:14 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410230522040.639@p500> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <417A2106.7010804@yahoo.com.au>
Applying this patch now and I will let everyone know what happens, thanks.
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> Kernel 2.6.9 w/TSO patch.
>>
>> (most likely do to the e1000/nic/issue)
>>
>> $ dmesg
>> gaim: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21
>> [<c01391a7>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
>> [<c0139328>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
>> [<c035c33a>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
>> [<c03648c0>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
>> [<c035c70f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
>> [<c035cb58>] DMAbuf_open+0x178/0x1d0
>> [<c035a4fa>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
>> [<c015d863>] cdev_get+0x53/0xc0
>> [<c035968c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
>> [<c035898e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
>> [<c03587c0>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
>> [<c015d524>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
>> [<c015d420>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
>> [<c0152d82>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
>> [<c0152b9c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
>> [<c01049c8>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
>> [<c0152e75>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
>> [<c0152fd9>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
>> [<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>
> Ouch, 64K atomic DMA allocation.
>
> The DMA zone barely even keeps that much total memory free.
>
> The caller probably wants fixing, but you could try this patch...
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-23 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-23 8:35 Justin Piszcz
2004-10-23 9:14 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-23 9:22 ` Justin Piszcz [this message]
2004-10-23 9:32 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-23 10:02 ` Justin Piszcz
2004-10-23 10:29 ` Nick Piggin
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