From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@psychology.rutgers.edu>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kswapd/tg3 issue
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:04:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061130150406.3d0b6afd@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061130144355.GK2021@washoe.onerussian.com>
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:43:55 -0500
Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@psychology.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Dear Kernel People,
>
> Just got a logwatch daily mail which revealed a problem:
> [2024412.788680] kswapd1: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
> and a lengthy backtrace with head
>
> ,------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | [2024412.795212] Call Trace:
> | [2024412.799768] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8020c852>] __alloc_pages+0x27a/0x291
> | [2024412.806452] [<ffffffff802a08e3>] kmem_getpages+0x5e/0xd8
> | [2024412.812370] [<ffffffff80212c68>] cache_grow+0xd0/0x185
> | [2024412.818064] [<ffffffff80245c4f>] cache_alloc_refill+0x18c/0x1da
> | [2024412.824625] [<ffffffff802a1979>] __kmalloc+0x93/0xa3
> | [2024412.830145] [<ffffffff80222e9e>] __alloc_skb+0x54/0x117
> | [2024412.835958] [<ffffffff803b8a55>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x12/0x2d
> | [2024412.842347] [<ffffffff80370292>] tg3_alloc_rx_skb+0xbb/0x146
> `---
> full dmesg is at
> http://www.onerussian.com/Linux/bugs/bug.kswapd/dmesg
>
> is that critical? seems to behave ok but...
Its tell us that the machine got very very tight on memory, far tighter
than it probably ever should in normal situations. It is harmless of
itself and if you only get the odd one is not a worry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-30 14:43 kswapd/tg3 issue Yaroslav Halchenko
2006-11-30 15:04 ` Alan [this message]
2006-11-30 15:10 ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2006-11-30 15:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-30 15:28 ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2006-11-30 15:39 ` Alan
2006-11-30 15:45 ` Avi Kivity
2006-11-30 16:28 ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2006-12-01 6:19 ` Herbert Xu
2006-12-01 14:08 ` Yaroslav Halchenko
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