Roland, We are seeing the following when booting on a large system.
[ 171.399023] mlx4_core 0004:01:00.0: irq 2410 for MSI/MSI-X [ 171.406560] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 171.411734] WARNING: at mm/slab_common.c:376 kmalloc_slab+0x71/0x90() [ 171.418919] Modules linked in: mlx4_core(+) sg lpc_ich mfd_core shpchp pci_hotplug ehci_pci ehci_hcd ioatdma i2c_i801 igb dca i2c_algo_bit i2c_core ptp pps_core mperf processor thermal_sys hwmon usbcore usb_common ext4 jbd2 crc16 sd_mod crc_t10dif qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt megaraid_sas ahci libahci isci libsas libata scsi_transport_sas scsi_mod button dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod gru(O) xvma(O) [ 171.460377] CPU: 48 PID: 2561 Comm: kworker/48:1 Tainted: G W O 3.10.0-rc1-uv-hz100-rja+ #3 [ 171.470473] Hardware name: SGI UV2000/ROMLEY, BIOS SGI UV 2000/3000 series BIOS 01/15/2013 [ 171.479720] Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn [ 171.484597] 0000000000000178 ffff8867bb0f5ba8 ffffffff814a873c ffff8867bb0f5be8 [ 171.492897] ffffffff81045a7b 000080d0000080d0 0000000000200000 ffff88679bc7cb80 [ 171.501205] 0000000000000000 00000000000082d0 0000000000000000 ffff8867bb0f5bf8 [ 171.509502] Call Trace: [ 171.512266] [<ffffffff814a873c>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1d [ 171.518007] [<ffffffff81045a7b>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6b/0xa0 [ 171.524711] [<ffffffff81045ac5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [ 171.531230] [<ffffffff811258c1>] kmalloc_slab+0x71/0x90 [ 171.537176] [<ffffffff81152e10>] __kmalloc+0x30/0x220 [ 171.542989] [<ffffffffa03a9f4b>] ? mlx4_buddy_init+0xdb/0x1d0 [mlx4_core] [ 171.550699] [<ffffffffa03a9f4b>] mlx4_buddy_init+0xdb/0x1d0 [mlx4_core] [ 171.558183] [<ffffffffa03aa0ef>] mlx4_init_mr_table+0xaf/0x130 [mlx4_core] [ 171.565964] [<ffffffffa03a3c48>] mlx4_setup_hca+0x158/0x5a0 [mlx4_core] [ 171.573446] [<ffffffffa03a5b90>] __mlx4_init_one+0x720/0x9c0 [mlx4_core] [ 171.581030] [<ffffffffa03a5e7c>] mlx4_init_one+0x2c/0x60 [mlx4_core] [ 171.588232] [<ffffffff8128c599>] local_pci_probe+0x49/0x80 [ 171.594458] [<ffffffff810606f3>] work_for_cpu_fn+0x13/0x20 [ 171.600692] [<ffffffff81064114>] process_one_work+0x194/0x3d0 [ 171.607200] [<ffffffff81065464>] worker_thread+0x2c4/0x410 [ 171.613421] [<ffffffff810651a0>] ? manage_workers+0x190/0x190 [ 171.619940] [<ffffffff8106aee6>] kthread+0xc6/0xd0 [ 171.625392] [<ffffffff8106ae20>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 [ 171.633182] [<ffffffff814b42ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [ 171.639204] [<ffffffff8106ae20>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 [ 171.646976] ---[ end trace 822f6d487f108023 ]--- [ 171.715920] mlx4_core 0004:01:00.0: command 0xc failed: fw status = 0x40 [ 171.723888] mlx4_core: Initializing 0007:02:00.0 This looks to be a kmalloc larger than MAX_ORDER. Not sure which of the two kcallocs in mlx4_buddy_init. Thanks, Robin Holt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/