Hi! I got this warning at boot with 2.6.33-rc6: [ 12.374168] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 12.375798] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:1813 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x180/0x666() [ 12.377401] Hardware name: 2241B48 [ 12.378984] Modules linked in: [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] [ 12.380593] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.33-rc6-aa-nopat #50 [ 12.382194] Call Trace: [ 12.383781] [<ffffffff810b6b3e>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x180/0x666 [ 12.385390] [<ffffffff81041cda>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa4 [ 12.386996] [<ffffffff81041d16>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11 [ 12.388577] [<ffffffff810b6b3e>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x180/0x666 [ 12.390168] [<ffffffff81036a9b>] ? finish_task_switch+0x4b/0xb1 [ 12.391758] [<ffffffff810b7036>] __get_free_pages+0x12/0x4f [ 12.393354] [<ffffffff810de892>] __kmalloc+0x42/0x116 [ 12.394934] [<ffffffff812405bf>] match_number+0x35/0x98 [ 12.396493] [<ffffffff8124064d>] match_int+0xb/0xd [ 12.398045] [<ffffffff81169c8c>] parse_options+0x5fe/0x733 [ 12.399594] [<ffffffff811058c3>] ? __wait_on_buffer+0x1f/0x21 [ 12.401157] [<ffffffff8116a2dc>] ext4_fill_super+0x373/0x2070 [ 12.402696] [<ffffffff8123ede2>] ? snprintf+0x59/0x5b [ 12.404229] [<ffffffff815cb293>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x2f [ 12.405764] [<ffffffff815cae1a>] ? __down_write+0xb/0xd [ 12.407293] [<ffffffff810e68fe>] get_sb_bdev+0x12a/0x175 [ 12.408815] [<ffffffff81169f69>] ? ext4_fill_super+0x0/0x2070 [ 12.410336] [<ffffffff81167b7f>] ext4_get_sb+0x13/0x15 [ 12.411843] [<ffffffff810e64e5>] vfs_kern_mount+0x9d/0x158 [ 12.413355] [<ffffffff810e65fd>] do_kern_mount+0x47/0xe7 [ 12.414859] [<ffffffff810fbdf3>] do_mount+0x780/0x7f9 [ 12.416362] [<ffffffff810b7036>] ? __get_free_pages+0x12/0x4f [ 12.417855] [<ffffffff81119838>] compat_sys_mount+0x1ee/0x227 [ 12.419339] [<ffffffff810e2594>] ? do_sys_open+0xf5/0x104 [ 12.420831] [<ffffffff8102b112>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0x5 [ 12.422307] ---[ end trace f5edc87c0d05d4ad ]--- [ 12.425039] EXT4-fs (sda8): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem [ 12.426552] EXT4-fs (sda8): write access will be enabled during recovery [ 14.342227] EXT4-fs (sda8): orphan cleanup on readonly fs [ 14.343756] EXT4-fs (sda8): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 54847 [ 14.343818] EXT4-fs (sda8): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 54846 [ 14.343830] EXT4-fs (sda8): 2 orphan inodes deleted [ 14.345342] EXT4-fs (sda8): recovery complete [ 14.761956] EXT4-fs (sda8): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode I have not noticed this warning previously on the same kernel, so it's not easily reproducible. The system functions fine after this: __GFP_NOWARN missing somewhere? Thanks, -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html