Re: 2.6.29-rc4-git1 -- iwl3945: Can not allocate SKB buffers

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Feb 09 2009 - 16:22:25 EST


On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 16:12 -0500, Miles Lane wrote:
> [12506.627936] iwl3945: Can not allocate SKB buffers

So iwl3945 prints out that it's out of memory, but probably uses
__GFP_NOWARN.

> [12544.530789] java: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x4020
> [12544.530798] Pid: 21292, comm: java Not tainted 2.6.29-rc4-git1 #2
> [12544.530801] Call Trace:
> [12544.530812] [<ffffffff8028f12d>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x423/0x442
> [12544.530820] [<ffffffff804cbb4f>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x52/0x16f
> [12544.530826] [<ffffffff802b13df>] alloc_slab_page+0x20/0x26
> [12544.530830] [<ffffffff802b1624>] __slab_alloc+0x23f/0x527
> [12544.530835] [<ffffffff804cbb4f>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x52/0x16f
> [12544.530839] [<ffffffff804cbb4f>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x52/0x16f
> [12544.530844] [<ffffffff802b23db>] __kmalloc+0xbc/0x102
> [12544.530848] [<ffffffff804cbb4f>] pskb_expand_head+0x52/0x16f
> [12544.530854] [<ffffffff805a0c8b>] ieee80211_skb_resize+0x91/0xca
> [12544.530858] [<ffffffff805a16fd>] ieee80211_master_start_xmit+0x260/0x4c3

and here we have pskb_expand_head failing to allocate memory. And an
order 1 allocation too. Are you saying wireless has a memory leak?

johannes

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