Re: 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 -- Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'aplay', page c18eef30)

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On 11/20/05, Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> > (Added alsa-devel to cc:)
> >
> > Will this change have any ill effects on older kernels?
>
> I think not (except 2.6.5 and earlier didn't define __GFP_COMP).
>
> > If not we should fix it in the ALSA tree right?
>
> Probably, but I'm no authority on the ALSA tree.
>
> And suggest you wait a bit, since I haven't yet signed off on the
> patch that piece will be a part of.
>
> And what about the patch at the bottom (which I had CC'ed to Karsten
> Wiese), is that part of the ALSA tree too?  That case isn't so easy:
> the get_page makes a difference, and probably it was right not to do
> it before, yet strange it was the only nopage in the tree which didn't
> get_page.
>
> Hugh
>
> > Lee
> >
> > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 08:05 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Miles Lane wrote:
> > > > [17179671.700000] Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process
> > > > 'aplay', page c18eef30)
> > > > [17179671.700000] flags:0x80000414 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0
> > >
> > > Please let me know if it's not fixed by:
> > >
> > > --- 2.6.15-rc1-mm2/sound/core/memalloc.c    2005-11-12 09:01:28.000000000 +0000
> > > +++ linux/sound/core/memalloc.c     2005-11-19 19:03:32.000000000 +0000
> > > @@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ void *snd_malloc_pages(size_t size, gfp_
> > >
> > >     snd_assert(size > 0, return NULL);
> > >     snd_assert(gfp_flags != 0, return NULL);
> > > +   gfp_flags |= __GFP_COMP;        /* compound page lets parts be mapped */
> > >     pg = get_order(size);
> > >     if ((res = (void *) __get_free_pages(gfp_flags, pg)) != NULL) {
> > >             mark_pages(virt_to_page(res), pg);
> > > @@ -241,6 +242,7 @@ static void *snd_malloc_dev_pages(struct
> > >     snd_assert(dma != NULL, return NULL);
> > >     pg = get_order(size);
> > >     gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL
> > > +           | __GFP_COMP    /* compound page lets parts be mapped */
> > >             | __GFP_NORETRY /* don't trigger OOM-killer */
> > >             | __GFP_NOWARN; /* no stack trace print - this call is non-critical */
> > >     res = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, PAGE_SIZE << pg, dma, gfp_flags);

Thanks, this did fix the problem for me.

         Miles
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