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Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:20:54 -0800
From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: <IRQ> [<ffffffff810c9204>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x622/0x696
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On 03/05/2011 06:50 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Justin Mattock wrote:
>
>> [  339.787008] SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1 (gfp=0x20)
>> [  339.787008]   cache: kmalloc-8192, object size: 8192, buffer size:
>> 8264, default order: 3, min order: 2
>> [  339.787008]   kmalloc-8192 debugging increased min order, use
>> slub_debug=O to disable.
>> [  339.787008]   node 0: slabs: 181, objs: 543, free: 0
>> [  339.790575] skbuff alloc of size 3904 failed
>> [  339.823775] swapper: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x4020
>> [  339.823781] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38-rc7-00143-gd1b152c #7
>> [  339.823783] Call Trace:
>> [  339.823786]<IRQ>   [<ffffffff810c9204>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x622/0x696
>> [  339.823811]  [<ffffffffa015a077>] ? ath_rxbuf_alloc+0x29/0x9a [ath]
>> [  339.823815]  [<ffffffff810f67cf>] ? new_slab+0x7b/0x1c6
>> [  339.823819]  [<ffffffffa015a077>] ? ath_rxbuf_alloc+0x29/0x9a [ath]
>> [  339.823823]  [<ffffffff810f6dd6>] ? T.925+0x163/0x29c
>> [  339.823827]  [<ffffffff810c4ecc>] ? mempool_destroy+0xf/0x17
>> [  339.823832]  [<ffffffffa015a077>] ? ath_rxbuf_alloc+0x29/0x9a [ath]
>> [  339.823836]  [<ffffffff810f895a>] ? __kmalloc_track_caller+0xfe/0x190
>>
>
> Order-2 atomic allocations are always going to be difficult since we can't
> do synchronous compaction or reclaim, but I'd try the suggestion shown
> above: boot with slub_debug=O or disable slub debugging so that
> kmalloc-8192 is actually order-1 like it should be.
>

alright! I will leave that setting on in the boot options to see if this 
happens again.

Justin P. Mattock