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SubjectRe: OOPS in __alloc_pages on x86
Andrew Morton wrote:

>Jaco Kroon <jkroon@cs.up.ac.za> wrote:
>
>
>>And on 2.6.5:
>>
>>ifconfig: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
>>Call Trace:
>>[<c013df67>] __alloc_pages+0x2d7/0x390
>>[<c013e042>] __get_free_pages+0x22/0x60
>>[<c014216f>] cache_grow+0x11f/0x470
>>[<c014262f>] cache_alloc_refill+0x16f/0x4e0
>>[<c014306f>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x19f/0x1c0
>>[<c0260dfc>] alloc_skb+0x1c/0xe0
>>[<c023cb41>] tulip_init_ring+0xa1/0x160
>>[<c023c6f6>] tulip_open+0x36/0x50
>>[<c0265437>] dev_open+0xb7/0xf0
>>[<c0266cf8>] dev_change_flags+0x58/0x140
>>[<c02a4b27>] devinet_ioctl+0x2b7/0x6a0
>>[<c02a6cf0>] inet_ioctl+0xb0/0xf0
>>[<c025d93c>] sock_ioctl+0xac/0x260
>>[<c0174a1d>] sys_ioctl+0x8d/0x220
>>[<c0107a77>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>>
>>When configuring the network card upon boot.
>>
>>
>
>I don't know why you'd fail an allocation on boot. How much memory does
>that machine have?
>
>
64MB. And by upon boot I mean during the init process, not actually the
kernel boot itself. System startup might be a better phrase in the
context. By the time ifconfig executes there should still be plenty of
memory left, plus 128MB swap.

>You should increase /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes.
>
>There's not a lot more we can do about this really, unless the driver is
>actually buggy. Perhaps the default min_free_kbytes could be increased for
>however much memory you have.
>
>
>
Will deffinately try this.

Thanks

Jaco

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