On Mon 05-06-17 10:04:35, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Linus Torvalds (2017-06-05 05:26:06)
[...]
> > Maybe we want some middle ground between "retry forever" and "don't
> > try at all". In people trying to fight the "retry forever", we seem to
> > have gone too far in the "don't even bother, just
Quoting Linus Torvalds (2017-06-05 05:26:06)
> So there's something wrong with the memory allocation changes since
> 4.11, which seem to be mostly credited to Chris Wilson.
>
> In particular, I got this earlier today:
>
> Xorg: page allocation failure: order:0,
> mode:0x14210d2(GFP_HIGHUSER|__G
On Sun 04-06-17 21:26:06, Linus Torvalds wrote:
[...]
> Also adding some VM people, because I think it's ridiculous that the
> 0-order allocation failed in the first place. Full report attached,
> there's tons of memory that should have been trivial to free.
Node 0 DMA32 free:64228kB min:12788kB l
So there's something wrong with the memory allocation changes since
4.11, which seem to be mostly credited to Chris Wilson.
In particular, I got this earlier today:
Xorg: page allocation failure: order:0,
mode:0x14210d2(GFP_HIGHUSER|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_RECLAIMABLE),
nodemask=(null)
and then so
