Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:08:28 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: mount.nfs: cannot allocate memory |
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On 12-06-12 06:58 PM, Mark Lord wrote: > Adding Ben Hutchings to CC: as he seems to have looked into this before. > >> On 12-06-12 06:44 PM, Mark Lord wrote: >>> I've been seeing these messages on my AMD Fusion server >>> running linux-3.3.7-64bit. Does this ring any bells for anyone else? >>> The system is NOT low on memory. >>> >>> I'm building/installing 3.4.2 now to see if it behaves any better. >>> >>> [962841.265658] mount.nfs: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0xc0d0 >>> [962841.265674] Pid: 32116, comm: mount.nfs Not tainted 3.3.7 #2 >>> [962841.265680] Call Trace: >>> [962841.265700] [<ffffffff81079363>] ? warn_alloc_failed+0x11a/0x12d >>> [962841.265713] [<ffffffff8107b904>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6c0/0x702 >>> [962841.265725] [<ffffffff8114fcb8>] ? timerqueue_del+0x53/0x63 >>> [962841.265758] [<ffffffff8107b9ba>] ? __get_free_pages+0x10/0x3f >>> [962841.265805] [<ffffffffa01ea33d>] ? nfs_idmap_new+0x28/0xde [nfs] >>> [962841.265836] [<ffffffffa01c79c9>] ? nfs4_init_client+0x74/0x12a [nfs] ... >> Looks like an old bug, perhaps: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593035 >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728003 >> >> I wonder what the underlying cause is? >> And I also wonder if the NFS code should be more clever >> about handing order-4 allocation failures. > > More references: > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kernel@lists.debian.org/msg71281.html > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1004619 > http://codemonkey.org.uk/2012/02/17/fedora-16-kernel-bugzilla-status-report-20120210-20120217/ > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/73
Ahh.. this one seems to explain it, kind of: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/41686
So in 3.3.7, I didn't have CONFIG_NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER enabled, and the kernel seems to be buggy without that.
In 3.4.2, that option has disappeared entirely, most likely because it is now the default behaviour. Right?
Thanks.
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