Hi Dave: I just got this when rekeying my VPN (2.6.21.1):
events/0: page allocation failure. order:7, mode:0xd0 [<c0146235>] __alloc_pages+0x1e5/0x2e0 [<c0146356>] __get_free_pages+0x26/0x50 [<c02a01ef>] xfrm_hash_alloc+0x2f/0x80 [<c029a947>] xfrm_bydst_resize+0x37/0xc0 [<c029aa70>] xfrm_hash_resize+0x0/0x80 [<c029aae7>] xfrm_hash_resize+0x77/0x80 [<c012a8ea>] run_workqueue+0x8a/0x190 [<c012ab17>] worker_thread+0x127/0x160 [<c0117490>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 [<c01174d7>] __wake_up_common+0x37/0x70 [<c0117490>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 [<c012a9f0>] worker_thread+0x0/0x160 [<c012e044>] kthread+0xb4/0xc0 [<c012df90>] kthread+0x0/0xc0 [<c0105287>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= Isn't an order-7 allocation (half a meg) a bit over-the-top for that hash, especially since I've got a grand total of 4 SAs :) Anyway, we shouldn't warn about these allocations since they're expected to fail after the box has been up for a while. Also, should we try vmalloc when it does fail? [IPSEC]: Don't warn if high-order hash resize fails Multi-page allocations are always likely to fail. Since such failures are expected and non-critical in xfrm_hash_alloc, we shouldn't warn about them. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c index 37643bb..55ab579 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c @@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ struct hlist_head *xfrm_hash_alloc(unsigned int sz) n = __vmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL); else n = (struct hlist_head *) - __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, get_order(sz)); + __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, + get_order(sz)); if (n) memset(n, 0, sz); - 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