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SubjectRe: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of May 16th 2008
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Rank 10: __alloc_pages
> Reported 16 times (31 total reports)
> Sleeping allocation in interrupt context, some in netlink, some in
> the nv sata driver
> This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25.3, and first seen in
> 2.6.18-rc1.
> More info:
> http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=__alloc_pages

In the case of the sata_nv error, it appears this is happening now
because blk_queue_bounce_limit is initializing emergency ISA pools which
can't be done under spinlock. This is happening because the code in
blk_queue_bounce_limit now thinks that a 32-bit DMA mask requires
allocating with GFP_DMA. This is only needed for a DMA mask less than
32-bit, which is what the original code did. It looks like this was
broken by this commit:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=00d61e3e8c12d5f395b167856d2b3c430816afb0

author Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:06:44 +0000 (09:06 +0200)
committer Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:06:44 +0000 (09:06 +0200)

Fix bounce setting for 64-bit

Not sure what this was intended to fix, but I don't think it's right..


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