linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29-rc3: page allocation failure

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:59:18 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc3: page allocation failure

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:22 +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> rtorrent: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x4020
> Pid: 2161, comm: rtorrent Not tainted 2.6.29-rc3 #1
> Call Trace:

Unless its a very frequent phenomenon, I'd not worry too much about
this.

GFP_ATOMIC allocations (like the one you had here) can fail at any time,
and !0 order even more so.

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