Re: [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Patch failed

Shawn Starr
2001-02-24T22:32:20Z

Doing so..., Im not sure hot to use ksymoops or where to get that program.
I just usually use the sysq and dump but its ugly ;-)

Shawn.

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:
>
> > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.
> > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> > Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.
> >
> > didnt, work, still causing this..
>
> Ok, could you please add a line with "BUG();" after the
> printk("__alloc_pages: %d-order allocation failed", ..) in mm/page_alloc.c
> function __alloc_pages() ?
>
> This will make you get an oops when an allocation fails and if you decode
> it (with ksymoops) we can have a pretty useful backtrace to have more clue
> of what's failing.
>
> TIA