linux-kernel - strange stuff in dmesg

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Date:	Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:03:58 +0700
From:	BuraphaLinux Server <buraphalinuxserver@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: strange stuff in dmesg

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()
[    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

Download attachment "config.gz" of type "application/x-gzip" (18239 bytes)