Re: swapper fault (kernel problems with 2.6.24)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 04/01/08 08:45, Alex Samad wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have been running 2.6.22 for quite a while, I recently upgraded to
> > 2.6.24-4
> >
> > I have started to see this turn up in my dmesg
> >
> > swapper: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20
> > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: PF       2.6.24-1-amd64 #1
> >
> > Call Trace:
> >  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff80276d3b>] __alloc_pages+0x2f0/0x309
> >  [<ffffffff802926ba>] kmem_getpages+0x94/0x144
> >  [<ffffffff802926ba>] kmem_getpages+0x94/0x144
> >  [<ffffffff80292c21>] fallback_alloc+0x122/0x18e
> >  [<ffffffff80292899>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x92/0xbe
> >  [<ffffffff803a6e8c>] __alloc_skb+0x64/0x12d
> [snip]
> > not exactly sure what the problem is, i don't see any disk problems, nor
> > have i had any memory problems before. The next dump is for ssh.
> >
> > my tainted kernel is truecrypt (4.3) and vmware - built with any-any
> > kernel modules.
>
> Maybe .24 doesn't like vmware or tc?

i recompiled the latest 2.6.24-5 with linux-2.6_2.6.24-5.diff.gz and 
built vmware with any-any-115a and see no problems at all.

hugo