linux-kernel - Re: b44 - swapper: page allocation failure

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Message-ID: <20090115111537.GA994@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:15:37 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Mihai Donțu <mihai.dontu@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b44 - swapper: page allocation failure

Mihai Donțu <mihai.dontu@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A friend of mine just booted 2.6.28 and when someone else tried to send 
> something to him over ssh (scp), the transfer failed and the following 
> appeared in dmesg:

You missed the all important order line before the stack trace.
If it's order 0, then you're just out of memory, if it's greater
than order 0, then either you're using jumbo frames or b44 is
broken.

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