linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:30:59 -0700
From:	reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@...il.com>,
	"Abbas, Mohamed" <mohamed.abbas@...el.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@....fi>
Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 06:10 -0700, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > The majority of the wireless reports have been in 
> > this driver and I think we have the problem commit there. The only other
> > is a firmware loading problem in e100 after resume that fails to make an
> > atomic order-5 fail.
> 
> Not exactly true. Bartlomiej's report was about ipw2200, so there are at 
> least 3 different drivers involved, two wireless and one wired. Besides 
> that one report is related to heavy swap, one to resume and one to driver 
> reload.

Another report arrived today. Please see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/40858 - it
is an order-5 allocation failure during driver reload.

Reinette

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