Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:54:03 -0500 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: allocation failure in b43/ssb |
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:09:44PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > We just had a report from a user who spotted a bunch of messages > of the form below in his logs..
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> The kernel is a little old (2.6.26). > > Looking at it though, I'm puzzled.. > > It seems we failed to allocate an order-1 allocation, even though > we had memory available in the DMA and normal zones. > > What am I missing? > > Full logs at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=322882
Most of those traces look a little scrambled, but as best as I can tell that call to setup_rx_descbuffer comes from dma_rx. That means that the call to __dev_alloc_skb is done with GFP_ATOMIC. I don't know if that factors into the answer to what is happening or not.
John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle.
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