Re: [Bug 8464] New: autoreconf: page allocation failure. order:2,mode:0x84020

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> I see the gfpmask was 0x84020. That doesn't look like __GFP_WAIT was set,
> right? Does that mean that SLUB is trying to allocate pages atomically? If so,
> it would explain why this situation could still occur even though high-order
> allocations that could sleep would succeed.

SLUB is following the gfp mask of the caller like all well behaved slab 
allocators do. If the caller does not set __GFP_WAIT then the page 
allocator also cannot wait.
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