From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx130.postini.com [74.125.245.130]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB2096B0078 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:25:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:25:36 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: iwl3945: order 5 allocation during ifconfig up; vm problem? Message-Id: <20120911162536.bd5171a1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20120910111113.GA25159@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20120909213228.GA5538@elf.ucw.cz> <20120910111113.GA25159@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Pavel Machek Cc: David Rientjes , sgruszka@redhat.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johannes.berg@intel.com, wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com, ilw@linux.intel.com, Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:11:13 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2012-09-09 15:40:55, David Rientjes wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > On 3.6.0-rc2+, I tried to turn on the wireless, but got > > > > > > root@amd:~# ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.6 up > > > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate memory > > > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate memory > > > root@amd:~# > > > > > > It looks like it uses "a bit too big" allocations to allocate > > > firmware...? Order five allocation.... > > > > > > Hmm... then I did "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" and now the > > > network works. Is it VM problem that it failed to allocate memory when > > > it was freeable? > > > > > > > Do you have CONFIG_COMPACTION enabled? > > Yes: > > pavel@amd:/data/l/linux-good$ zgrep CONFIG_COMPACTION /proc/config.gz > CONFIG_COMPACTION=y Asking for a 256k allocation is pretty crazy - this is an operating system kernel, not a userspace application. I'm wondering if this is due to a recent change, but I'm having trouble working out where the allocation call site is. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org