Re: 2.5.53-mm3: xmms: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x20

[Andrew Morton]

khromy wrote:
> 
> Running 2.5.53-mm3, I found the following in dmesg.  I don't remember
> getting anything like this with 2.5.53-mm3.
> 
> xmms: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x20

gack.  Someone is requesting 128k of memory with GFP_ATOMIC.  It fell
afoul of the reduced memory reserves.  It deserved to.

Could you please add this patch, and make sure that you have set
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y?  This will find the culprit.

Thanks.

--- 25/mm/page_alloc.c~a	Sun Dec 29 12:40:30 2002
+++ 25-akpm/mm/page_alloc.c	Sun Dec 29 12:40:36 2002
@@ -572,6 +572,7 @@ nopage:
 		printk("%s: page allocation failure."
 			" order:%d, mode:0x%x\n",
 			current->comm, order, gfp_mask);
+		dump_stack();
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }

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