linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Candidate fix for increased number of GFP

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Message-ID: <20091023073120.GA16987@geggus.net>
Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:31:21 +0200
From:	Sven Geggus <lists@...hsschwanzdomain.de>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@...il.com>,
	Tobias Oetiker <tobi@...iker.ch>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@....fi>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@...el.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@...net.com>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Candidate fix for increased number of GFP_ATOMIC
	failures V2

Mel Gorman schrieb am Donnerstag, den 22. Oktober um 16:22 Uhr:

> [No BZ ID] Kernel crash on 2.6.31.x (kcryptd: page allocation failure..)
> 	This apparently is easily reproducible, particular in comparison to
> 	the other reports. The point of greatest interest is that this is
> 	order-0 GFP_ATOMIC failures. Sven, I'm hoping that you in particular
> 	will be able to follow the tests below as you are the most likely
> 	person to have an easily reproducible situation.

I will see what I can do on the weekend. Unfortunately the crash happens on
a somewhat important machine and afterwards the Software-RAID needs a resync
which takes a few hours.

Sven

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