I got this while restarting ipsec on a 2.6.19rc2 system that was up for a few days.
Order 8 is really a bit big to get from the direct mapping after boot. Should the hash allocation fall back to vmalloc? -Andi Initializing XFRM netlink socket events/0: page allocation failure. order:8, mode:0xd0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8024be30>] __alloc_pages+0x297/0x2ae [<ffffffff804a3127>] xfrm_hash_resize+0x0/0x27e [<ffffffff8024c301>] __get_free_pages+0x33/0x6d [<ffffffff804a4a21>] xfrm_hash_alloc+0x56/0x6d [<ffffffff804a3185>] xfrm_hash_resize+0x5e/0x27e [<ffffffff804a3127>] xfrm_hash_resize+0x0/0x27e [<ffffffff802369ca>] run_workqueue+0x92/0xe3 [<ffffffff80236ab9>] worker_thread+0x0/0x119 [<ffffffff80236ba0>] worker_thread+0xe7/0x119 [<ffffffff80224a6e>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe [<ffffffff80239900>] kthread+0xcb/0xf5 [<ffffffff8020a1c5>] child_rip+0xa/0x15 [<ffffffff80239835>] kthread+0x0/0xf5 [<ffffffff8020a1bb>] child_rip+0x0/0x15 Mem-info: DMA per-cpu: CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 CPU 1: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 DMA32 per-cpu: CPU 0: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 168 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 51 CPU 1: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 14 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 58 Active:293384 inactive:157186 Initializing XFRM netlink socket events/0: page allocation failure. order:8, mode:0xd0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8024be30>] __alloc_pages+0x297/0x2ae [<ffffffff804a3127>] xfrm_hash_resize+0x0/0x27e [<ffffffff8024c301>] __get_free_pages+0x33/0x6d [<ffffffff804a4a21>] xfrm_hash_alloc+0x56/0x6d [<ffffffff804a3185>] xfrm_hash_resize+0x5e/0x27e [<ffffffff804a3127>] xfrm_hash_resize+0x0/0x27e [<ffffffff802369ca>] run_workqueue+0x92/0xe3 [<ffffffff80236ab9>] worker_thread+0x0/0x119 [<ffffffff80236ba0>] worker_thread+0xe7/0x119 [<ffffffff80224a6e>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe [<ffffffff80239900>] kthread+0xcb/0xf5 [<ffffffff8020a1c5>] child_rip+0xa/0x15 [<ffffffff80239835>] kthread+0x0/0xf5 [<ffffffff8020a1bb>] child_rip+0x0/0x15 Mem-info: DMA per-cpu: CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 CPU 1: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 DMA32 per-cpu: CPU 0: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 168 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 51 CPU 1: Hot: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 14 Cold: hi: 62, btch: 15 usd: 58 Active:293384 inactive:157186 dirty:94 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:10372 slab:46328 mapped:18292 pagetables:1952 DMA free:8040kB min:28kB low:32kB high:40kB active:2720kB inactive:40kB present:10396kB pages_scanned:32 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2002 2002 DMA32 free:33448kB min:5708kB low:7132kB high:8560kB active:1170816kB inactive:628704kB present:2050208kB pages_scanned:152 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 1*4096kB = 8040kB DMA32: 6862*4kB 260*8kB 41*16kB 18*32kB 10*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 33448kB Swap cache: add 92, delete 92, find 27/32, race 0+0 Free swap = 987988kB Total swap = 987988kB Free swap: 987988kB 524032 pages of RAM 9689 reserved pages 260692 pages shared 0 pages swap cached events/0: page allocation failure. order:8, mode:0xd0 dirty:94 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:10372 slab:46328 mapped:18292 pagetables:1952 DMA free:8040kB min:28kB low:32kB high:40kB active:2720kB inactive:40kB present:10396kB pages_scanned:32 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2002 2002 DMA32 free:33448kB min:5708kB low:7132kB high:8560kB active:1170816kB inactive:628704kB present:2050208kB pages_scanned:152 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 1*4096kB = 8040kB DMA32: 6862*4kB 260*8kB 41*16kB 18*32kB 10*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 33448kB Swap cache: add 92, delete 92, find 27/32, race 0+0 Free swap = 987988kB Total swap = 987988kB Free swap: 987988kB 524032 pages of RAM 9689 reserved pages 260692 pages shared 0 pages swap cached events/0: page allocation failure. order:8, mode:0xd0 ... repeated a few times with the same backtrace ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html