Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed

[Szabolcs Szakacsits]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> I am seeing this as well on 2.4.3 with both _get_free_pages() and
> kmalloc().  In the kmalloc case, the modules hang waiting
> for memory.

One possible source of this hang is due to the change below in
2.4.3, non GPF_ATOMIC and non-recursive allocations (PF_MEMALLOC is set)
will loop until the requested continuous memory is available.

	Szaka

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.2/linux/mm/page_alloc.c
linux/mm/page_alloc.c--- v2.4.2/linux/mm/page_alloc.c        Sat Feb  3
19:51:32 2001
+++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c       Tue Mar 20 15:05:46 2001
@@ -455,8 +455,7 @@
                        memory_pressure++;
                        try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask);
                        wakeup_bdflush(0);
-                       if (!order)
-                               goto try_again;
+                       goto try_again;
                }
        }