Re: 2.4.8/2.4.9 problem

[Daniel Phillips]

On August 19, 2001 11:13 pm, Andrey Nekrasov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am have problem with "kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed."
> 
> 1. syslog kern.*
> 
>    ...
> 	 Aug 19 12:28:16 sol kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed.
> 	 Aug 19 12:28:37 sol last message repeated 364 times
> 	 Aug 19 12:29:17 sol last message repeated 47 times
> [etc]

Could you please try it with this patch, which will tell us a little more 
about what's happening (patch -p0):

--- ../2.4.9.clean/mm/page_alloc.c	Thu Aug 16 12:43:02 2001
+++ ./mm/page_alloc.c	Mon Aug 20 22:05:40 2001
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
 	}
 
 	/* No luck.. */
-	printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed.\n", order);
+	printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed (gfp=0x%x/%i).\n", order, gfp_mask, !!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC));
 	return NULL;
 }