Hello Mel Gorman, The patch 290d1a3ce0ec: "mm: page_alloc: avoid marking zones full prematurely after zone_reclaim()" from Mar 23, 2013, leads to the following warning: "mm/page_alloc.c:1957 get_page_from_freelist() warn: bitwise AND condition is false here" mm/page_alloc.c 1948 /* 1949 * Failed to reclaim enough to meet watermark. 1950 * Only mark the zone full if checking the min 1951 * watermark or if we failed to reclaim just 1952 * 1<<order pages or else the page allocator 1953 * fastpath will prematurely mark zones full 1954 * when the watermark is between the low and 1955 * min watermarks. 1956 */ 1957 if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MIN) || ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is zero. 1958 ret == ZONE_RECLAIM_SOME) 1959 goto this_zone_full; [snip] 2333 static inline int 2334 gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask) 2335 { 2336 int alloc_flags = ALLOC_WMARK_MIN | ALLOC_CPUSET; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 2337 const gfp_t wait = gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT; regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>