On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:20:45 +0200 (CEST) "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > of recent regressions. > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > from 2.6.29. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know > (either way). > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13319 > Subject : Page allocation failures with b43 and p54usb > Submitter : Larry Finger <[email protected]> > Date : 2009-04-29 21:01 (18 days old) > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124103897101088&w=4 > Handled-By : Johannes Berg <[email protected]> > > Well.. order-1 GFP_ATOMIC allocations are unreliable. The networking code should hanlde the situation and recover. I assume that is happening in this case? Perhaps we did something in that code after 2.6.29 which increased the frequency of the order-1 allocation attempts? Maybe earlier kernels used order-0 all the time? Those are much more reliable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
