Re: 2.4.8/2.4.9 problem

[Andrey Nekrasov <andy@spylog.ru>]

Hello Daniel Phillips,

> > I am have problem with "kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed."
> 
> Could you please try it with this patch, which will tell us a little more 
> about what's happening (patch -p0):
> 
> --- ../2.4.9.clean/mm/page_alloc.c	Thu Aug 16 12:43:02 2001
> +++ ./mm/page_alloc.c	Mon Aug 20 22:05:40 2001
> @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
>  	}
>  
>  	/* No luck.. */
> -	printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed.\n", order);
> +	printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed (gfp=0x%x/%i).\n", order, gfp_mask, !!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC));
>  	return NULL;
>  }

I applied patch, this is result:

...
Aug 23 14:00:29 sol kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 23 14:00:29 sol last message repeated 12 times
Aug 23 14:00:29 sol kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 23 14:00:29 sol kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 23 14:00:53 sol last message repeated 334 times
Aug 23 14:00:53 sol kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 23 14:00:53 sol kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 23 14:00:55 sol last message repeated 300 times
Aug 23 14:00:55 sol kernel: cation failed (gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 23 14:00:55 sol kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x30/1).
Aug 23 14:00:55 sol last message repeated 281 times
...


Hm. That is it?

-- 
bye.
Andrey Nekrasov, SpyLOG.