From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932770Ab1JRPv5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:51:57 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:33886 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932608Ab1JRPvz (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:51:55 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,366,1315206000"; d="scan'208";a="79289002" From: Andi Kleen To: p.herz@profihost.ag Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Vanilla-Kernel 3 - page allocation failure References: <4E9D53FF.7090609@profihost.ag> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:51:54 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4E9D53FF.7090609@profihost.ag> (Philipp Herz's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:25:03 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Philipp Herz - Profihost AG writes: > After updating kernel (x86_64) to stable version 3 there are a few > messages appearing in the kernel log such as > > kworker/0:1: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20 > mysql: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20 > php5: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20 You just ran out of memory. The problem here seems to be that the kernel is unable to communicate in a language you can understand. How do you think the message should have been phrased to make the issue more clear? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only