From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Phil Dier <phil@dier.us>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops with dual xeon 2.8ghz 4gb ram +smp, software raid, lvm, and xfs
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:12:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041124151234.714f30d4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041124094549.4c51d6d5.phil@dier.us>
Phil Dier <phil@dier.us> wrote:
>
> > Can you rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_4KSTACKS=n?
> >
>
>
> Looks like 8k stacks did the trick, at least for the oops. Now I'm
> seeing the stuff below.
>
> I got a ton more of this with jfs and xfs, but it seems much less with
> reiser. Should I be worried, or is this something I can safely ignore?
> It doesn't lock the system.. Could files be getting corrupted?
>
>
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c013c854>] __alloc_pages+0x1b9/0x35e
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c013ca1e>] __get_free_pages+0x25/0x3f
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c013fccb>] kmem_getpages+0x21/0xc9
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140813>] alloc_slabmgmt+0x55/0x5f
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140992>] cache_grow+0xab/0x14d
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140ba8>] cache_alloc_refill+0x174/0x219
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140ffe>] __kmalloc+0x85/0x8c
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c03f4f89>] alloc_skb+0x47/0xe0
> Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c032ebe5>] e1000_alloc_rx_buffers+0x44/0xe3
You didn't mention the kernel version. 2.6.9 had problems in this area, so
2.6.10-rc2 should be better. And there are post-2.6.10-rc2 fixes which
will provide more headroom.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-24 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-22 19:06 oops with dual xeon 2.8ghz 4gb ram +smp, software raid, lvm, and xfs Phil Dier
2004-11-23 0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-23 15:37 ` Phil Dier
2004-11-23 17:02 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-11-23 18:29 ` Phil Dier
2004-11-23 22:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-23 22:56 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-11-23 23:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-30 17:37 ` Phil Dier
2004-11-24 15:45 ` Phil Dier
2004-11-24 16:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-24 23:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-25 0:48 ` Phil Dier
2004-11-28 11:29 ` David Greaves
2004-11-28 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-08 9:03 ` David Greaves
2004-12-08 9:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-09 3:50 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-24 23:12 ` Neil Brown
2004-11-24 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-25 0:14 ` Neil Brown
2004-11-25 1:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-25 6:57 ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-25 7:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-25 7:11 ` Jens Axboe
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2004-11-23 20:48 Joerg Sommrey
2004-11-24 9:28 Anders Saaby
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2004-11-25 11:07 ` Andi Kleen
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