Out of memory error

From: Cliffe
Date: Sat Jan 31 2009 - 07:27:28 EST


Hello,

I get the following error messages from code I am working on. It works fine in userspace.

I suspect it may be due to the kernel's limited stack size as it uses a recursive algorithm. If this is the cause, how can I provide the (lsm) module with more memory? This is for a research project so it is ok if the solution is not quite kosher.

Thank you, any help will be appreciated. Please CC me in on any replies.

Cliffe.

The message:

The following is only an harmless informational message.
Unless you get a _continuous_flood_ of these messages it means
everything is working fine. Allocations from irqs cannot be
perfectly reliable and the kernel is designed to handle that.
bash: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
[<c015846a>] __alloc_pages+0x2c5/0x2d6
[<c016de72>] cache_alloc_refill+0x2ae/0x4c1
[<c0129640>] irq_exit+0x53/0x6b
[<c016e0fc>] __kmalloc+0x77/0x8f
[<e1060c01>] mem_alloc+0x19/0x5f [fbac_lsm]
[<e1069b14>] copy_to_new_to_send_recursive+0x22/0x91 [fbac_lsm]
[<e1069cf3>] copy_to_new_func_recursive+0xde/0x11d [fbac_lsm]
[<e1069ce3>] copy_to_new_func_recursive+0xce/0x11d [fbac_lsm]
[<e1069ce3>] copy_to_new_func_recursive+0xce/0x11d [fbac_lsm]
[<e1069ce3>] copy_to_new_func_recursive+0xce/0x11d [fbac_lsm]
[<e10633fc>] build_task_tree_found_application+0x82/0x144 [fbac_lsm]
[<e10635d7>] build_task_tree_find_application+0x9d/0x1a5 [fbac_lsm]
[<e106381c>] build_task_tree+0x13d/0x1a1 [fbac_lsm]
[<e1064ca9>] start_task+0x32/0x175 [fbac_lsm]
[<e1060a6a>] fbac_lsm_bprm_set_security+0x124/0x1f1 [fbac_lsm]
[<c017449f>] prepare_binprm+0xa7/0xd0
[<c0173f27>] count+0x14/0x3f
[<c017597f>] do_execve+0xef/0x1e1
[<c01036fe>] sys_execve+0x2f/0x78
[<c0104e22>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa9
=======================
Mem-info:
DMA per-cpu:
CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
Normal per-cpu:
CPU 0: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 22 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 12
Active:50484 inactive:64525 dirty:108 writeback:0 unstable:0
free:761 slab:10659 mapped:10607 pagetables:421 bounce:0
DMA free:2000kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB active:392kB inactive:8332kB present:16256kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 492 492
Normal free:1044kB min:2792kB low:3488kB high:4188kB active:201544kB inactive:249768kB present:503936kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2000kB
Normal: 1*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1044kB
Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0
Free swap = 0kB
Total swap = 0kB
Free swap: 0kB
131072 pages of RAM
0 pages of HIGHMEM
2092 reserved pages
92964 pages shared
0 pages swap cached
108 pages dirty
0 pages writeback
10607 pages mapped
10659 pages slab
421 pages pagetables

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