Re: Memory management problem with 2.6.0

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 01 2004 - 05:04:22 EST


caszonyi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > caszonyi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a small script:
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > umount /mnt/cdrom
> > > eject /dev/hdb
> > > echo "Invalid system disk"
> > > echo "Insert and press any key when ready"
> > > read junk
> > > eject -t /dev/hdb
> > > sleep 1
> > > mount /mnt/cdrom
> > > /usr/sbin/hdparm -E 10 /dev/hdb
> > >
> > > It works all the time but today gave me this:
> > >
> > > In the logs I had:
> > > Dec 27 19:06:16 grinch kernel: eject: page allocation failure. order:4,
> > > mode:0xd0
> >
> > Please, try
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0/2.6.0-mm1/broken-out/cdrom-allocation-try-harder.patch
> >
> > and let me know?
> >
>
> for cdrom it *seems* to work.
>
> The problem continues however for other applications
> It is not specific to the ide-cd driver. The same problem happens
> sometimes
> with mplayer also
>
> Dec 30 22:07:12 grinch kernel: mplayer: page allocation failure. order:4,
> mode:0x21

OK, there's another one. Please apply

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0/2.6.0-mm2/broken-out/page-alloc-failure-dump_stack.patch

and send the backtrace.
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