linux-kernel - Re: Vanilla-Kernel 3 - page allocation failure

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Message-ID: <16605.1319145104@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:11:44 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	p.herz@...fihost.ag, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vanilla-Kernel 3 - page allocation failure

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:51:54 PDT, Andi Kleen said:
> Philipp Herz - Profihost AG <p.herz@...fihost.ag> writes:
> 
> > After updating kernel (x86_64) to stable version 3 there are a few
> > messages appearing in the kernel log such as
> >
> > kworker/0:1: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20
> > mysql: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20
> > php5: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20
> 
> You just ran out of memory.

I read it as "Why is this happening when the previous kernel didn't have
this issue?", which is a *much* more complicated question...

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