Non-e1000, 2.6.9 page allocation failures with OSS/audio.

From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 07:05:58 EST


The other page allocation failures were due to the e1000+TSO segmentation offload issue.

I use OSS sound drivers with 2.6.9.

Here are the options I use and have been using for quite some time without error:

1] <*> Open Sound System (DEPRECATED)
2] <*> OSS sound modules
3] [*] Verbose initialisation
4] [*] Persistent DMA buffers
5] <*> Crystal CS4232 based (PnP) cards

My LILO append line as is follows:
append="cs4232=0x530,5,1,0,388,5 mce video=atyfb:1600x1200-16@60"

What happened to the page allocation / memory subsystem in 2.6.9?
I do not recall getting these with 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.6.8 or 2.6.8.1.

gaim: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21
[<c0139227>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
[<c01393a8>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
[<c035c7ca>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
[<c0364d50>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
[<c035cb9f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
[<c035cfe8>] DMAbuf_open+0x178/0x1d0
[<c035a98a>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
[<c015d8e3>] cdev_get+0x53/0xc0
[<c0359b1c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
[<c0358e1e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
[<c0358c50>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
[<c015d5a4>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
[<c015d4a0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
[<c0152e02>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
[<c0152c1c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
[<c0152ef5>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
[<c0153059>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
[<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
gaim: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x21
[<c0139227>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
[<c01393a8>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
[<c035c7ca>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
[<c0364d50>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
[<c035cb9f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
[<c035cfe8>] DMAbuf_open+0x178/0x1d0
[<c035a98a>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
[<c015d8e3>] cdev_get+0x53/0xc0
[<c0359b1c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
[<c0358e1e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
[<c0358c50>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
[<c015d5a4>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
[<c015d4a0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
[<c0152e02>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
[<c0152c1c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
[<c0152ef5>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
[<c0153059>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
[<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
gaim: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21
[<c0139227>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
[<c01393a8>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
[<c035c7ca>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
[<c0364d50>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
[<c035cb9f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
[<c035cf2d>] DMAbuf_open+0xbd/0x1d0
[<c035a98a>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
[<c015d8e3>] cdev_get+0x53/0xc0
[<c0359b1c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
[<c0358e1e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
[<c0358c50>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
[<c015d5a4>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
[<c015d4a0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
[<c0152e02>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
[<c0152c1c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
[<c0152ef5>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
[<c0153059>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
[<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
gaim: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x21
[<c0139227>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
[<c01393a8>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
[<c035c7ca>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
[<c0364d50>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
[<c035cb9f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
[<c035cf2d>] DMAbuf_open+0xbd/0x1d0
[<c035a98a>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
[<c015d8e3>] cdev_get+0x53/0xc0
[<c0359b1c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
[<c0358e1e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
[<c0358c50>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
[<c015d5a4>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
[<c015d4a0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
[<c0152e02>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
[<c0152c1c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
[<c0152ef5>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
[<c0153059>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
[<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
gaim: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21
[<c0139227>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
[<c01393a8>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
[<c035c7ca>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
[<c0364d50>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
[<c035cb9f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
[<c035cfe8>] DMAbuf_open+0x178/0x1d0
[<c035a98a>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
[<c0359b1c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
[<c0358e1e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
[<c0358c50>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
[<c015d5a4>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
[<c015d4a0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
[<c0152e02>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
[<c0152c1c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
[<c0152ef5>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
[<c0153059>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
[<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
gaim: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x21
[<c0139227>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
[<c01393a8>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
[<c035c7ca>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
[<c0364d50>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
[<c035cb9f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
[<c035cfe8>] DMAbuf_open+0x178/0x1d0
[<c035a98a>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
[<c0359b1c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
[<c0358e1e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
[<c0358c50>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
[<c015d5a4>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
[<c015d4a0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
[<c0152e02>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
[<c0152c1c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
[<c0152ef5>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
[<c0153059>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
[<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
gaim: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21
[<c0139227>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
[<c01393a8>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
[<c035c7ca>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
[<c0364d50>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
[<c035cb9f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
[<c035cf2d>] DMAbuf_open+0xbd/0x1d0
[<c035a98a>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
[<c0359b1c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
[<c0358e1e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
[<c0358c50>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
[<c015d5a4>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
[<c015d4a0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
[<c0152e02>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
[<c0152c1c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
[<c0152ef5>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
[<c0153059>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
[<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
gaim: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x21
[<c0139227>] __alloc_pages+0x247/0x3b0
[<c01393a8>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x40
[<c035c7ca>] sound_alloc_dmap+0xaa/0x1b0
[<c0364d50>] ad_mute+0x20/0x40
[<c035cb9f>] open_dmap+0x1f/0x100
[<c035cf2d>] DMAbuf_open+0xbd/0x1d0
[<c035a98a>] audio_open+0xba/0x280
[<c0359b1c>] sound_open+0xac/0x110
[<c0358e1e>] soundcore_open+0x1ce/0x300
[<c0358c50>] soundcore_open+0x0/0x300
[<c015d5a4>] chrdev_open+0x104/0x250
[<c015d4a0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x250
[<c0152e02>] dentry_open+0x1d2/0x270
[<c0152c1c>] filp_open+0x5c/0x70
[<c0152ef5>] get_unused_fd+0x55/0xf0
[<c0153059>] sys_open+0x49/0x90
[<c010405b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

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