Re: [PATCH] vm-fix-all_zones_ok (was Re: 2.6.3-mm3)

Andrew Morton
2004-02-24T09:37:45Z

Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
>
> I just notice I'm getting debugging output (call traces) for page
> allocation failures which I've not seem before. I was getting these
> (swapper: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20) after beating
> things to see how bad things will get for Nick.

Order *two*? That's four physically contiguous pages. We haven't got a
snowball's chance of satisfying an order-2 GFP_ATOMIC allocation for
networking.

What's the call backtrace on these failures?