From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264665AbUJWJWg (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 05:22:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264571AbUJWJWg (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 05:22:36 -0400 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:35203 "HELO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263818AbUJWJWS (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 05:22:18 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 05:22:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p500 To: Nick Piggin cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failures Return With 2.6.9+TSO patch. In-Reply-To: <417A2106.7010804@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <417A2106.7010804@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 >> [] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0 >> [] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40 >> [] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0 >> [] ad_mute+0x20/0x40 >> [] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100 >> [] DMAbuf_open+0x178/0x1d0 >> [] audio_open+0xba/0x280 >> [] cdev_get+0x53/0xc0 >> [] sound_open+0xac/0x110 >> [] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300 >> [] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300 >> [] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250 >> [] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250 >> [] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270 >> [] filp_open+0x5c/0x70 >> [] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 >> [] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0 >> [] sys_open+0x49/0x90 >> [] 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... >