Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Abu M. Muttalib" <> | | Subject | RE: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel?? | | Date | Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:56:49 +0530 |
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Hi,
That's precisely I want to say. The PAGES are available but they are not allocated to process. Why??
~Abu.
-----Original Message----- From: Martin J. Bligh [mailto:mbligh@mbligh.org] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:29 PM To: Abu M. Muttalib Cc: Paulo Marques; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel??
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.
M.
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