Re: 2.6.1[78] page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20

From: Roy de Boer
Date: Mon Sep 25 2006 - 04:40:16 EST

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:27:18 +0000 (GMT) Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I get some of the "page allocation failure" errors. My hardware is 4 CPU
> Opteron with one quad + one dual intel e1000 cards. Kernel is plain 2.6.18
> and for two cards MTU is set to 9000.

I'm getting more or less the same error messages (although I'm no expert) on a AMD Geode NX 1700+ and a intel e1000 nic. I'm using a stock 2.6.18 kernel.

I hope this will help diagnose the problem.

Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] java: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0147963>] __alloc_pages+0x213/0x330
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c015da07>] cache_alloc_refill+0x307/0x530
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c015dcad>] __kmalloc+0x7d/0x80
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04b7523>] __alloc_skb+0x63/0x120
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04e4618>] tcp_collapse+0x138/0x360
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04e4945>] tcp_prune_queue+0x105/0x2c0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<e0e29396>] tcp_packet+0x356/0xcc0 [ip_conntrack]
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04e78a1>] tcp_data_queue+0x5f1/0xc50
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04e8f3a>] tcp_rcv_established+0x26a/0x940
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<e0e11937>] ipt_do_table+0x267/0x300 [ip_tables]
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04f0bba>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0xca/0x2d0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04f1bbb>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x72b/0x890
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04d46e0>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x0/0x170
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04d46e0>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x0/0x170
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04d497f>] ip_local_deliver+0x12f/0x200
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04d46e0>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x0/0x170
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04d4d23>] ip_rcv+0x2d3/0x500
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04d4420>] ip_rcv_finish+0x0/0x2c0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04bfaa9>] netif_receive_skb+0x1f9/0x270
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04bfb8e>] process_backlog+0x6e/0xf0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c04bd57c>] net_rx_action+0x6c/0x150
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0123e43>] __do_softirq+0x43/0x90
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0123eb6>] do_softirq+0x26/0x30
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0105776>] do_IRQ+0x36/0x70
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c043739f>] ata_scsi_rw_xlat+0x2ff/0x510
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c01038fe>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0141e7c>] remove_suid+0xc/0x70
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c017b236>] file_update_time+0x46/0xc0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0144df1>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x201/0x470
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c011b796>] __cond_resched+0x16/0x30
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c014532e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x6e/0x110
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0105776>] do_IRQ+0x36/0x70
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c01d8994>] ext3_file_write+0x44/0xd0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0160a48>] do_sync_write+0xd8/0x140
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0132520>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0160fed>] vfs_write+0xdd/0x1c0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0161b0b>] sys_write+0x4b/0x80
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] [<c0102f0d>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Mem-info:
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] DMA per-cpu:
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] DMA32 per-cpu: empty
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Normal per-cpu:
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:176
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:6
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] HighMem per-cpu: empty
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Free pages: 5612kB (0kB HighMem)
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Active:92165 inactive:19681 dirty:1771 writeback:1 unstable:0 free:1403 slab:6352 mapped:14889 pagetables:424
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] DMA free:2016kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB active:7404kB inactive:288kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 495 495
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 495 495
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Normal free:3596kB min:2804kB low:3504kB high:4204kB active:361256kB inactive:78436kB present:507840kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] DMA: 10*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2016kB
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] DMA32: empty
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Normal: 767*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3596kB
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] HighMem: empty
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Swap cache: add 378, delete 378, find 16/24, race 0+0
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Free swap = 656028kB
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Total swap = 656496kB
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] Free swap: 656028kB
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 131056 pages of RAM
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 0 pages of HIGHMEM
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 2741 reserved pages
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 79395 pages shared
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 0 pages swap cached
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 1771 pages dirty
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 1 pages writeback
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 14889 pages mapped
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 6352 pages slab
Sep 25 07:54:46 gatar kernel: [23623.594000] 424 pages pagetables

Regards,

Roy de Boer
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