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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bob Copeland wrote:

> Here is everything the system said after being powered on, including all
> page allocation failures and the final oops:
>
> http://www1.wpkg.org/skb_gso_segment/minicom.txt
>
> (and it looks slightly different than the last time).

In this case an order-0 allocation failed inside ieee80211_skb_resize,
which then called dev_release_skb() on the original skb.  Off the top
of my head, it's unclear why the subsequent put_page would cause a fault.

This is a little out of my area so take it with a grain of salt :) but
in general order-0 allocation failures are bad news -- it couldn't get
a single free page, and that happened in under 3 minutes.  Maybe poke
around in /proc/slabinfo to see where the memory went?

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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