netdev - Re: [Bug #14016] mm/ipw2200 regression

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Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:27:41 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #14016] mm/ipw2200 regression

[Cc netdev]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:09:44AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> > of recent regressions.
> >
> > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> > from 2.6.30.  Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
> > (either way).
> >
> > Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14016
> > Subject         : mm/ipw2200 regression
> > Submitter       : Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
> > Date            : 2009-08-15 16:56 (11 days old)
> > References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125036437221408&w=4
> 
> If am reading the page allocator dump correctly, there's plenty of
> pages left but we're unable to satisfy an order 6 allocation. There's
> no slab allocator involved so the page allocator changes that went
> into 2.6.31 seem likely. Mel, ideas?

It's an atomic order-6 allocation, the chances for this to succeed
after some uptime become infinitesimal.  The chunks > order-2 are
pretty much exhausted on this dump.

64 pages, presumably 256k, for fw->boot_size while current ipw
firmware images have ~188k.  I don't know jack squat about this
driver, but given the field name and the struct:

	struct ipw_fw {
		__le32 ver;
		__le32 boot_size;
		__le32 ucode_size;
		__le32 fw_size;
		u8 data[0];
	};

fw->boot_size alone being that big sounds a bit fishy to me.

	Hannes
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