From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:20:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B773967.4A3B426A@torque.net> (raw)
Marcelo wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, André Dahlqvist wrote:
> > With recent kernel, 2.4.7 and 2.4.8 my syslog file has been filled with
> > these messages:
> >
> > Aug 12 02:08:58 sledgehammer kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> > Aug 12 02:08:58 sledgehammer kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> > Aug 12 02:08:58 sledgehammer kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.
> > Aug 12 02:08:58 sledgehammer kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> >
> > I have not yet found a pattern for when it happens but it doesn't seam to
> > affect my system all that much. Let me know if you want further info or if
> > this is a known thing.
>
> Are you using SCSI?
Marcelo,
That looks just like the sg driver trying to build a
scatter gather list, first it tries 32 KB, then 16 KB
then 8 KB and final gets PAGE_SIZE. This is _not_ an
error (it just leads to more elements in the scatter
gather list).
Any chance that printk() in __alloc_pages() can be removed?
Doug Gilbert
next reply other threads:[~2001-08-13 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-13 2:20 Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2001-08-13 2:04 ` __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed Marcelo Tosatti
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2001-08-12 0:58 André Dahlqvist
2001-08-13 0:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-13 2:05 ` André Dahlqvist
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