Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:00:12 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Szabolcs Szakacsits <> | Subject | Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed |
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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; } }
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