linux-kernel - Re: The issue with page allocation 5.3 rc1-rc2 (seems drm culprit here)

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Date:   Thu, 8 Aug 2019 10:12:59 +0200
From:   Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>
To:     Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>,
        Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com>
Cc:     Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@....com>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        "Koenig, Christian" <Christian.Koenig@....com>
Subject: Re: The issue with page allocation 5.3 rc1-rc2 (seems drm culprit
 here)

On 2019-08-08 7:31 a.m., Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 11:49 PM Mikhail Gavrilov
> <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately error "gnome-shell: page allocation failure: order:4,
>> mode:0x40cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP),
>> nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0" still happens even with
>> applying this patch.
> 
> I think we can just drop the kmalloc altogether.  How about this patch?

Memory allocated by kvz/malloc needs to be freed with kvfree.


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