From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:06:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:06:44 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:27920 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:06:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 05:06:12 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Rik van Riel Cc: "John O'Donnell" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.0: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. Message-ID: <20010108050612.A2519@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <3A58E69D.30005@voicefx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:07:52PM -0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 07 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > This debugging check should probably be removed around > 2.4.5, in the mean time it is much too useful to track > down badly behaving device drivers ;) It need not be a badly written driver, it could be a fine one just trying to see if it can get 2^3 successive pages for performance reasons. As long as it continues on its merry way when this fails it would be fine, and this message just confuses users. Plus, for this to be really useful as a catch-bad-guys tool it would be nice with a hint as what causes it (EIP or even a call trace). -- * Jens Axboe * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/