Hi Andrew, 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]>
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. I wonder if this is related: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13069 Both point to post 2.6.29... Hmm. -- 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
