Comment 2 for bug 385048

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Erik Meitner (e.meitner) wrote :

Easily reproducable on a fresh boot.

Another way to reproduce:
1. rmmod ath9k
2. "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null"
Ran with no problem
3. modprobe ath9k
4. immediately got:
Jun 9 08:07:21 cheren kernel: [ 1534.014840] modprobe: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x80d0
Jun 9 08:07:21 cheren kernel: [ 1534.014847] Pid: 7371, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.28-12-generic #43-Ubuntu
Jun 9 08:07:21 cheren kernel: [ 1534.014852] Call Trace:
Jun 9 08:07:21 cheren kernel: [ 1534.014864] [<c04fca36>] ? printk+0x18/0x1a
Jun 9 08:07:21 cheren kernel: [ 1534.014872] [<c0194287>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x387/0x490
Jun 9 08:07:21 cheren kernel: [ 1534.014881] [<c01087d3>] dma_generic_alloc_coherent+0x73/0xe0
...snip...