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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: arjanv@redhat.com
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:54:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D56CF0.2040803@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1087727591.2805.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 12:25, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>>>| # free
>>>|              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>>| Mem:         10260       9844        416          0        240       5004
>>>| -/+ buffers/cache:       4600       5660
>>>| Swap:        33256       3796      29460
>>>
>>
>>Not even atomic allocations memory are allowed to consume all memory.
>>A small amount is reserved for memory freeing (which sometimes
>>requires initial memory allocations).
>>
>>The message should be harmless.
> 
> 
> Since atomic allocations by definition need to be able to cope with
> failure, how about a patch like this to not warn for this common and
> legit case?
> 

CC'ed Andrew: I think it's his baby.

I guess we're at the point where we should quiet down things like
this. Although order-0 atomic allocation failures are pretty rare,
I'd consider leaving them in. Maybe a CONFIG option?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-20 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-20  9:20 page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-06-20 10:25 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-20 10:31   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-06-20 10:33   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-20 10:54     ` Nick Piggin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-19 14:08 Naveen Burmi

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