linux-kernel - Re: allocation failure in b43/ssb

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Date:	Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:54:03 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: allocation failure in b43/ssb

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:09:44PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> We just had a report from a user who spotted a bunch of messages
> of the form below in his logs..

<snip>

> The kernel is a little old (2.6.26).
> 
> Looking at it though, I'm puzzled..
> 
> It seems we failed to allocate an order-1 allocation, even though
> we had memory available in the DMA and normal zones.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Full logs at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=322882

Most of those traces look a little scrambled, but as best as I can
tell that call to setup_rx_descbuffer comes from dma_rx.  That means
that the call to __dev_alloc_skb is done with GFP_ATOMIC.  I don't
know if that factors into the answer to what is happening or not.

John
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