Re: [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Patch failed

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:

> Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.
> Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
> Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed.
> Feb 23 21:17:47 coredump kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.
> 
> didnt, work, still causing this..

Ok, could you please add a line with "BUG();" after the
printk("__alloc_pages: %d-order allocation failed", ..) in mm/page_alloc.c
function __alloc_pages() ?

This will make you get an oops when an allocation fails and if you decode
it (with ksymoops) we can have a pretty useful backtrace to have more clue
of what's failing.

TIA