[Bug 539482] [NEW] Page allocation failures on Dell E5500

Chris Coulson chris.coulson at canonical.com
Tue Mar 16 10:43:16 UTC 2010 

Public bug reported:

I'm seeing a lot of these types of errors in my /var/log/kern.log, which
did not exist in Karmic:

Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070726] swapper: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x4020
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070736] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-16-generic #25-Ubuntu
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070741] Call Trace:
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070746]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810f742e>] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x56e/0x580
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070773]  [<ffffffff810f759e>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x15e/0x1a0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070784]  [<ffffffff8112f282>] kmalloc_large_node+0x62/0xb0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070793]  [<ffffffff811338f5>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x135/0x180
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070839]  [<ffffffffa027fce7>] ? iwl_rx_allocate+0x197/0x2f0 [iwlcore]
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070851]  [<ffffffff81468210>] __alloc_skb+0x80/0x190
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070871]  [<ffffffffa027fce7>] iwl_rx_allocate+0x197/0x2f0 [iwlcore]
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070892]  [<ffffffffa028114b>] iwl_rx_replenish_now+0x1b/0x30 [iwlcore]
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070908]  [<ffffffffa029b388>] iwl_rx_handle+0x288/0x2f0 [iwlagn]
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070923]  [<ffffffffa029b9e0>] iwl_irq_tasklet+0x140/0x4f0 [iwlagn]
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070935]  [<ffffffff8106ac15>] tasklet_action+0xd5/0xe0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070943]  [<ffffffff8106c637>] __do_softirq+0xb7/0x1e0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070953]  [<ffffffff810c2f70>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x60/0x170
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070963]  [<ffffffff8101432c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070970]  [<ffffffff81015cf5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070977]  [<ffffffff8106c4d5>] irq_exit+0x85/0x90
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070987]  [<ffffffff8155be95>] do_IRQ+0x75/0xf0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.070997]  [<ffffffff81013b53>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071001]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff813089e9>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x109/0x13d
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071019]  [<ffffffff813089e2>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x102/0x13d
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071028]  [<ffffffff8144cb87>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0xa7/0x140
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071036]  [<ffffffff81011eb3>] ? cpu_idle+0xb3/0x110
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071046]  [<ffffffff815414eb>] ? rest_init+0x6b/0x80
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071055]  [<ffffffff8187ade5>] ? start_kernel+0x35c/0x365
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071066]  [<ffffffff8187a33a>] ? x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071075]  [<ffffffff8187a438>] ? x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071080] Mem-Info:
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071084] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071091] CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071097] CPU    1: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071101] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071107] CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 100
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071113] CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  30
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071126] active_anon:312518 inactive_anon:104762 isolated_anon:13
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071129]  active_file:16328 inactive_file:16967 isolated_file:21
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071131]  unevictable:24 dirty:0 writeback:41 unstable:0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071134]  free:3130 slab_reclaimable:9026 slab_unreclaimable:8509
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071136]  mapped:16776 shmem:49508 pagetables:8892 bounce:0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071142] Node 0 DMA free:7852kB min:40kB low:48kB high:60kB active_anon:1004kB inactive_anon:1708kB active_file:1892kB inactive_file:2772kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15344kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:244kB shmem:368kB slab_reclaimable:552kB slab_unreclaimable:84kB kernel_stack:8kB pagetables:16kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071167] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 1960 1960 1960
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071178] Node 0 DMA32 free:4668kB min:5644kB low:7052kB high:8464kB active_anon:1249068kB inactive_anon:417340kB active_file:63420kB inactive_file:65096kB unevictable:96kB isolated(anon):52kB isolated(file):84kB present:2007424kB mlocked:80kB dirty:0kB writeback:164kB mapped:66860kB shmem:197664kB slab_reclaimable:35552kB slab_unreclaimable:33952kB kernel_stack:2984kB pagetables:35552kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:67 all_unreclaimable? no
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071205] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071215] Node 0 DMA: 21*4kB 31*8kB 30*16kB 22*32kB 11*64kB 8*128kB 8*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 7852kB
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071241] Node 0 DMA32: 901*4kB 3*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4668kB
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071266] 91128 total pagecache pages
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071271] 8322 pages in swap cache
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071276] Swap cache stats: add 64725, delete 56403, find 49561/51105
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071281] Free swap  = 5697592kB
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.071285] Total swap = 5895812kB
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.080476] 512909 pages RAM
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.080476] 9807 pages reserved
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.080476] 110494 pages shared
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.080476] 460491 pages non-shared
Mar 14 23:57:23 chris-laptop kernel: [46417.080476] iwlagn 0000:0c:00.0: Failed to allocate SKB buffer with GFP_ATOMIC. Only 0 free buffers remaining.

Yesterday, my kern.log was flooded with these messages when copying a
large file from another computer across my wireless network (I'll attach
the whole section of that separately)

ProblemType: Bug
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0:  chr1s      4010 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1:  chr1s      4010 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6afc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name	: 'Intel G45 DEVCTG'
   Components	: 'HDA:111d76b2,10280263,00100302 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls      : 22
   Simple ctrls  : 11
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x9a4'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x9a4 at usb-0000:00:1a.7-3.3, high speed'
   Mixer name	: 'USB Mixer'
   Components	: 'USB046d:09a4'
   Controls      : 2
   Simple ctrls  : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 14
   Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [23.75dB] [on]
Date: Tue Mar 16 10:38:44 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=762f3439-67ac-4828-aa94-caf2a2ba0f9a
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E5500
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-16-generic 2.6.32-16.25
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-16-generic root=UUID=4ce5e12b-6e82-4fa4-90ff-7d9859d7504e ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
Regression: Yes
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.32
Reproducible: Yes
SourcePackage: linux
TestedUpstream: No
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 11/05/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A15
dmi.board.name: 0DW635
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd11/05/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0DW635:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E5500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid needs-upstream-testing regression-potential

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Page allocation failures on Dell E5500
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