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Re: swapper fault (kernel problems with 2.6.24)



On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:35:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> On 04/01/08 08:45, Alex Samad wrote:
>>> Hi
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>>> 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
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>>> 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?
>>
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> 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.
it was speculation and then machine had been up for a while!  Something
strange is going on, just wanted to see if any one else was
experiencing this

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