Re: [PATCH] vm-fix-all_zones_ok (was Re: 2.6.3-mm3)

[Andrew Morton]

Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I just notice I'm getting debugging output (call traces) for page
>  allocation failures which I've not seem before.  I was getting these
>  (swapper: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20) after beating
>  things to see how bad things will get for Nick.

Order *two*?  That's four physically contiguous pages.  We haven't got a
snowball's chance of satisfying an order-2 GFP_ATOMIC allocation for
networking.

What's the call backtrace on these failures?

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