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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: khromy <khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.53-mm3: xmms: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x20
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:42:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E0F5E2C.70F7D112@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021229202610.GA24554@lnuxlab.ath.cx

khromy wrote:
> 
> Running 2.5.53-mm3, I found the following in dmesg.  I don't remember
> getting anything like this with 2.5.53-mm3.
> 
> xmms: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x20

gack.  Someone is requesting 128k of memory with GFP_ATOMIC.  It fell
afoul of the reduced memory reserves.  It deserved to.

Could you please add this patch, and make sure that you have set
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y?  This will find the culprit.

Thanks.


--- 25/mm/page_alloc.c~a	Sun Dec 29 12:40:30 2002
+++ 25-akpm/mm/page_alloc.c	Sun Dec 29 12:40:36 2002
@@ -572,6 +572,7 @@ nopage:
 		printk("%s: page allocation failure."
 			" order:%d, mode:0x%x\n",
 			current->comm, order, gfp_mask);
+		dump_stack();
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }

_

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-29 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-29 20:26 2.5.53-mm3: xmms: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x20 khromy
2002-12-29 20:34 ` khromy
2002-12-29 20:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-29 23:32   ` khromy
2002-12-29 23:54     ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]       ` <20021230002604.GA25134@lnuxlab.ath.cx>
     [not found]         ` <3E0F8EF6.3C264886@digeo.com>
2002-12-30  0:51           ` khromy
2002-12-30  0:49             ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-30  1:32   ` Alan Cox
2002-12-30  1:06     ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-30  1:20     ` khromy
2002-12-30  1:49       ` Alan Cox

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