Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:59:19 -0700 | | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | | Subject | Re: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel?? |
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Abu M. Muttalib wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry to cause inconvenience. To put the doubts concisely, I am doing > the following: > > I am removing the sound driver (shipped with kernel 2.6.13) and then > inserting the same. This all I am doing inside an infinite loop. Before this > I have reserved and used (setting the same with memset) some 900 pages to > simulate an application environment. I am running this application on Linux > 2.6.13 on an ARM based target. During the course of the run I get the > following page allocation error: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------insmod: page > allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0
Order 5 allocations will never work reliably, except possibly at boot. We don't have 32 contig pages to give you - fragmentation.
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