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From: Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9 page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:47:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41810668.1050800@metaparadigm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4180FE0A.2020000@metaparadigm.com>

On 10/28/04 22:11, Michael Clark wrote:
> On 10/28/04 17:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> I'm confused.  2.6.9 uses __GFP_NOWARN in add_to_swap() so the messages
>> should be suppressed.  Are you sure you're using 2.6.9?
> 
> 
> Ya is 2.6.9, has uml-skas patch also but that doesn't touch swap_state.c
> 
> Ah, I see I think, radix_tree_node_alloc first calls kmem_cache_alloc
> with root->gfp_mask and only if this fails dips into the preloaded
> percpu node stash. Perhaps root->gfp_mask has !__GFP_NOWARN
> 
> Shouldn't it use the preloaded nodes that have been reserved anyway.

 From my other traces - looks like as_get_io_context also needs to use
__GFP_NOWARN in get_io_context as a NULL return appears to be handled.
This is the only other noise i'm getting in my tests.

~mc

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-28 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-28  5:31 2.6.9 page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 Michael Clark
2004-10-28  5:56 ` Michael Clark
2004-10-28  6:02   ` Michael Clark
2004-10-28  7:18   ` Daniel Phillips
2004-10-28  8:29 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 15:26   ` Michael Clark
2004-10-28  9:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-28 14:11   ` Michael Clark
2004-10-28 14:47     ` Michael Clark [this message]
2004-10-28 19:51     ` Andrew Morton

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