On August 21, 2001 03:46 pm, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> can anybody enlighten me about the following kernel-message:
>
> Aug 21 14:37:39 admin kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> Aug 21 14:37:39 admin kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> Aug 21 14:37:39 admin kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> Aug 21 14:37:39 admin kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> Aug 21 14:37:39 admin kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> Aug 21 14:37:39 admin kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> Aug 21 14:37:39 admin last message repeated 69 times
>
> I get tons of them during verifying burned CDs with xcdroast (which takes
> a really long time, and must have some problem therefore). I would not
> worry you if it didn't work with earlier kernel-versions, but in fact it
> did.
The following patch will tell us more about the failure, could you please
apply (patch -p0):
--- ../2.4.9.clean/mm/page_alloc.c Thu Aug 16 12:43:02 2001
+++ ./mm/page_alloc.c Mon Aug 20 22:05:40 2001
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
}
/* No luck.. */
- printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed.\n", order);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed (gfp=0x%x/%i).\n", order, gfp_mask, !!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC));
return NULL;
}
-
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