From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751027AbWFAO7e (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:59:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751067AbWFAO7e (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:59:34 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:50578 "EHLO dvhart.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751027AbWFAO7d (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:59:33 -0400 Message-ID: <447F00C7.4060904@mbligh.org> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:59:19 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Abu M. Muttalib" Cc: Paulo Marques , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel?? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Abu M. Muttalib wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry to cause inconvenience. To put the doubts concisely, I am doing > the following: > > I am removing the sound driver (shipped with kernel 2.6.13) and then > inserting the same. This all I am doing inside an infinite loop. Before this > I have reserved and used (setting the same with memset) some 900 pages to > simulate an application environment. I am running this application on Linux > 2.6.13 on an ARM based target. During the course of the run I get the > following page allocation error: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------insmod: page > allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0 Order 5 allocations will never work reliably, except possibly at boot. We don't have 32 contig pages to give you - fragmentation. M.