Bug 976445

Summary: page allocation failure
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Reiser <jreiser>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description John Reiser 2013-06-20 15:06:18 UTC
Created attachment 763491 [details]
syslog excerpt with page allocation failure

Description of problem: syslog (/var/log/messages) contains report "page allocation failure" possibly related to plugging in USB2.0 flash memory device on "busy" system.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.8.12-100.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible: one event


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in USB2.0 flash memory device while applydeltaiso is generating Fedora-19-Final-TC6-i386-DVD.iso (4.5GB)
2. wait for applydeltaiso to finish
3. livecd-iso-to-disk TC6.iso /dev/sdc1

Actual results: livecd-iso-to-disk complains that /dev/sdc1 is not a block device.  syslog says device was recognized as 480Mb/s.  syslog also contains report on "page allocation failure".  I will attach the contiguous syslog range.  I believe the relevant synopsis is:
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kernel: [885635.137065] usb 1-9: new high-speed USB device number 27 using ehci-pci
    [[snip]]
kernel: [885635.276374] scsi27 : usb-storage 1-9:1.0
mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 27: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.5/usb1/1-9"
mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 27 was not an MTP device
kernel: [885636.343105] scsi 27:0:0:0: Direct-Access              Patriot Memory   PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
kernel: [885636.345198] sd 27:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
kernel: [885636.725441] sd 27:0:0:0: [sdc] 15466496 512-byte logical blocks: (7.91 GB/7.37 GiB)
kernel: [885636.727981] sd 27:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
kernel: [885636.730481] sd 27:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
kernel: [885636.730488] sd 27:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
kernel: [885636.739236] sd 27:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
kernel: [885636.739250] sd 27:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
kernel: [885636.741855] kworker/u:53: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x10c0d0
    [[snip]]
kernel: [885636.802063] 885056 pages shared
kernel: [885636.802066] 567001 pages non-shared
kernel: [885636.813609] sd 27:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
kernel: [885636.813624] sd 27:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
kernel: [885636.813633] sd 27:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
   <<*NOTE* no recognition of partitions on sdc >>
   [[snip]]
kernel: [885843.791912] usb 1-9: USB disconnect, device number 27
kernel: [885846.482072] usb 1-10: new high-speed USB device number 28 using ehci-pci
    [[snip]]
kernel: [885846.621169] scsi28 : usb-storage 1-10:1.0
mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 28: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.5/usb1/1-10"
mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 28 was not an MTP device
kernel: [885847.687085] scsi 28:0:0:0: Direct-Access              Patriot Memory   PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
kernel: [885847.689100] sd 28:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
kernel: [885848.069817] sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] 15466496 512-byte logical blocks: (7.91 GB/7.37 GiB)
kernel: [885848.072314] sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
kernel: [885848.074830] sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
kernel: [885848.074842] sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
kernel: [885848.083223] sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
kernel: [885848.083237] sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
kernel: [885848.112906]  sdc: sdc1
    <<*NOTE* partition sdc1 is recognized after unplug + re-plug of USB2.0 flash memory device >>

Expected results: no "page allocation failure"


Additional info:

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