On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:22:26 -0700 "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > __get_free_pages() of swiotlb_alloc_coherent() fails in rc3-mm1. > > But, it doesn't fail on rc2-mm2, and kernel can boot up. > > That looks to be part of the problem here ... failing an order=3 > allocation during boot on a system that just a few lines earlier > in the boot log reported "Memory: 37474000k/37680640k available" > looks bad ... but perhaps having *more* memory is part of your problem. > You may have run low on GFP_DMA memory because some allocation > scaled by memory size has chewed up a lot of your memory. To check > this try booting with a "mem=4G" parameter and see if that helps > you. > > But it is also bad that the swiotlb() code failed to handle this. > Can you check whether the problem is related to the size of the > allocation being just over 256K (a magic number for swiotlb since > IO_TLB_SEGSIZE is 128 times a slab size of 2k). Try changing > lib/swiotlb.c to set IO_TLB_SEGSIZE to 256 instead. > Others are reporting machines which fail int he memory allcoator much earlier, and which claim to have four CPUs and 16 nodes. So something is very wonky in the rc3-mm1 page allocator. I guess suspicion has to be directed at the memoryless-nodes patches, but until that's cleared up I don't think there's much to be gained from chasing this iommu problem, now that you've worked out that it's a bogus memory allocation failure (thanks). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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