Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn

Karol Lewandowski
2009-10-04T19:28:00Z

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:01:43PM +0200, Karol Lewandowski wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:32:26AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Apparently, Karol Lewandowski (cc added) has a reliable
> > reproduction case for when the firmware loading problem occurs
> > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/30/242). While it's not the same problem exactly,
> > it's probable they're related. I'm hoping the problem commit can be identified
> > by his bisection whenever he gets around to it.
>
> Unfortunately, I've had little success with bisecting this problem.
> I've spend fair amount of time today trying to reproduce this problem,
> but I'm unable to do so even on kernels that failed "easily" before.

I've been able to reproduce this problem on 2.6.32-rc1. No "luck"
with bisecting, though.