Thanks Frank. It seems like there is something odd going on with the zonelist on your system. Maybe there is not actual ZONE_DMA32, or something is messed with the numa node setup. Below is a band aid patch to try theory number two above: diff --git a/kernel/dma/direct.c b/kernel/dma/direct.c index fcdb23e8d2fc..8e3f7b8bdb33 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/direct.c +++ b/kernel/dma/direct.c @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ struct page *__dma_direct_alloc_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size, } } if (!page) - page = alloc_pages_node(dev_to_node(dev), gfp, page_order); + page = alloc_pages(gfp, page_order); if (page && !dma_coherent_ok(dev, page_to_phys(page), size)) { __free_pages(page, page_order);