From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:48:37 +1000
> 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? Thanks I'll add the warning fix, but there must be some counter bug if it tried to grow to order-7, that really shouldn't be happening. - 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
