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, 12 Aug 2001 23:02:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:02:08 -0400 Received: from gear.torque.net ([204.138.244.1]:41995 "EHLO gear.torque.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:01:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3B773967.4A3B426A@torque.net> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:20:23 -0400 From: Douglas Gilbert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marcelo wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, André Dahlqvist wrote: > > With recent kernel, 2.4.7 and 2.4.8 my syslog file has been filled with > > these messages: > > > > Aug 12 02:08:58 sledgehammer kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > Aug 12 02:08:58 sledgehammer kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > Aug 12 02:08:58 sledgehammer kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. > > Aug 12 02:08:58 sledgehammer kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > > > I have not yet found a pattern for when it happens but it doesn't seam to > > affect my system all that much. Let me know if you want further info or if > > this is a known thing. > > Are you using SCSI? Marcelo, That looks just like the sg driver trying to build a scatter gather list, first it tries 32 KB, then 16 KB then 8 KB and final gets PAGE_SIZE. This is _not_ an error (it just leads to more elements in the scatter gather list). Any chance that printk() in __alloc_pages() can be removed? Doug Gilbert