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From: Alexey Skidanov <alexey.skidanov@intel.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, labbott@redhat.com
Subject: Possible reasons of CMA allocation failure
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 00:58:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10f52913-ad8b-4fd2-5e55-47aa46c48c0d@intel.com> (raw)

Hello,

On x86 machine with 16GB RAM installed, I reserved 1 GB area for CMA:
[    0.000000] cma: Reserved 1024 MiB at 0x00000003fcc00000

Some time after the boot, CMa failed to allocate chunk of memory while
there are enough contiguous pages:

[  392.132392] cma: cma_alloc: alloc failed, req-size: 200000 pages,
ret: -16
[  392.132393] cma: number of available pages:
6@8314+9@8343+9@8375+253648@8496=> 253672 free of 262144 total pages
[  392.132398] cma: cma_alloc(): returned (null)

What are the possible reasons for such failure (besides the pinned user
allocated pages) ?

Thanks,
Alexey

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             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-04 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-04 22:58 Alexey Skidanov [this message]
2018-02-05 13:46 ` Possible reasons of CMA allocation failure Alexey Skidanov

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