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

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Message-ID: <20091004192800.GA6442@bizet.domek.prywatny>
Date:	Sun, 4 Oct 2009 21:28:00 +0200
From:	Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@...il.com>
To:	Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@...il.com>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
	"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>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:01:43PM +0200, Karol Lewandowski wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:32:26AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Apparently, Karol Lewandowski (cc added) has a reliable
> > reproduction case for when the firmware loading problem occurs
> > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/30/242). While it's not the same problem exactly,
> > it's probable they're related. I'm hoping the problem commit can be identified
> > by his bisection whenever he gets around to it.
> 
> Unfortunately, I've had little success with bisecting this problem.
> I've spend fair amount of time today trying to reproduce this problem,
> but I'm unable to do so even on kernels that failed "easily" before.

I've been able to reproduce this problem on 2.6.32-rc1.  No "luck"
with bisecting, though.
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