Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:36:17 +0200 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: strange stuff in dmesg |
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 05:03:58PM +0700, BuraphaLinux Server wrote: > On my Dell OptiPlex 330 machines with kernel 2.6.32.2 I get a strange > WARNING. Do I need to worry? Here is the warning: > > [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [ 0.000000] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:1805 > __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1b6/0x730()
Memory allocations are failing because your scrollback size is set to high (65 Mb).
In your config you have: CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=65536
The default in 2.6.32 is 64.
regards, dan carpenter
> [ 0.000000] Hardware name: OptiPlex 330 > [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: > [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32.2 #1 > [ 0.000000] Call Trace: > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108e806>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1b6/0x730 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81043f68>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xd0 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81043fcf>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x20 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108e806>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1b6/0x730 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810b4e28>] alloc_pages_current+0x78/0xf0 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108da69>] __get_free_pages+0x9/0x50 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810bb912>] __kmalloc+0x112/0x120 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8146e773>] vgacon_scrollback_startup+0x13/0x70 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff811d29b3>] vgacon_startup+0x2a3/0x420 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff816fc556>] con_init+0x1b/0x230 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff816fba00>] console_init+0x22/0x42 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff816d4b8f>] start_kernel+0x240/0x3be > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff816d4289>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x99/0xb9 > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff816d4389>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe0/0xf2 > [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- > > I also got it on 2.6.31.9, but had waited to ask hoping 2.6.32.2 would fix it. > > Attached is my config
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