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From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
To: Brian Vowell <brian.vowell@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10767] New: Seg Fault Instead of Swapping
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 14:33:08 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805261426010.16829@wrl-59.cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf4145200805230906k34a0452at773e840b791e6b0a@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 23 May 2008, Brian Vowell wrote:

> Here are some of the others that show in the logs:
> 
> This one repeats four times, and then again multiple times every minute
> afterwards for about 30 minutes.
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel: pdflush: page allocation failure. order:3,
> mode:0x4020

I think that the problem here is that tg3 tries to allocate a large 
contiguous memory block which isn't available.

> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel: Pid: 15300, comm: pdflush Not tainted
> 2.6.25.4 #1
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel: Call Trace:
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff81075d35>]
> __alloc_pages+0x33f/0x35a
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  [<ffffffff810934a4>] new_slab+0x3f/0x242
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  [<ffffffff81093bba>]
> __slab_alloc+0x212/0x43b
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  [<ffffffff8128654c>]
> __netdev_alloc_skb+0x29/0x43
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  [<ffffffff8128654c>]
> __netdev_alloc_skb+0x29/0x43
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  [<ffffffff81094bd6>]
> __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x75/0xab
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  [<ffffffff8128584a>] __alloc_skb+0x6a/0x133
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  [<ffffffff8128654c>]
> __netdev_alloc_skb+0x29/0x43
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  [<ffffffff8123a405>]
> tg3_alloc_rx_skb+0xc4/0x153
> May 18 19:31:00 ishtar kernel:  [<ffffffff81241343>] tg3_poll+0x3be/0x7df


...but I'm probably not much of help with it.


-- 
 i.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-26 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-10767-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2008-05-21 17:57 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 10767] New: Seg Fault Instead of Swapping Andrew Morton
     [not found]   ` <cf4145200805211140o3b2287dcsc57f8a78aa48a99d@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-21 18:53     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 20:18     ` Ilpo Järvinen
     [not found]       ` <cf4145200805211345y3b00d209o58e11a7b553cdfc6@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-23 10:25         ` Ilpo Järvinen
     [not found]           ` <cf4145200805230906k34a0452at773e840b791e6b0a@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <cf4145200805231024w2e735fb8ifecf7e2e1bab5957@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-23 18:01               ` Ilpo Järvinen
     [not found]                 ` <cf4145200805231126y401c2454w97e5305346aa8acd@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-24  8:57                   ` Ilpo Järvinen
     [not found]                     ` <cf4145200805240706p2eb54e9ei51bc33f782ff5aef@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-26 11:24                       ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-06-03 23:35                         ` David Miller
2008-06-04  7:12                           ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-06-04 18:20                             ` David Miller
2008-05-26 11:33             ` Ilpo Järvinen [this message]

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