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SubjectRe: kernel 3.2.27 on arm: WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2109 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1d4/0x68c()
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> :
> [ Cc'ing original mail to netdev as the problem may be recognized there ]
[...]
> Francois is right that a GFP_ATOMIC allocation from pskb_expand_head()
> is failing, which can easily happen, and cause your "failed to reallocate
> TX buffer" errors; but it's well worth looking up what's actually on
> lines 2108 and 2109 of mm/page_alloc.c in 3.2.27:
>
> if (order >= MAX_ORDER) {
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN));

You are right. The wifi Tx path error is not related.

I overlooked it was using SLUB btw.

> That was probably not a sane allocation request, it has gone out of range:
> maybe the skb header is even corrupted. If you're lucky, it might be
> something that netdev will recognize as already fixed.

Afaics nothing related to mv643xx_eth.c, nor pskb_expand_head nor
ip6_forward, at least nothing trivially close. Eric may provide a
better answer.

--
Ueimor


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