Re: [dummy_stm_init] swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x14040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null)

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 19-04-18 10:36:39, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> FYI this happens in mainline kernel 4.17.0-rc1.
> It dates back to at least v4.15.
> 
> It occurs in 4 out of 4 boots. Here KVM has 1G memory.
> 
> This high order allocation caused lots of noises in our boot testing.
> We could disable this device in our tests, but it would be great if
> there are better ways out.
> 
> [   75.039408]       Product name: fake-design-for-testing
> [   75.040995] fmc fake-design-for-testing-f001: Driver has no ID: matches all
> [   75.042509] fmc_trivial: probe of fake-design-for-testing-f001 failed with error -95
> [   75.044323] fmc fake-design-for-testing-f001: Driver has no ID: matches all
> [   75.045644] fmc_chardev fake-design-for-testing-f001: Created misc device "fake-design-for-testing-f001"
> [   75.061570] swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x14040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null)

Is there any reason why
> [   75.063338]  stm_register_device+0xf3/0x5c0:
> 						stm_register_device at drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c:695

cannot use kvzalloc?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs