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...
Easily reproducable on a fresh boot.
Another way to reproduce: pages_internal+ 0x387/0x490 alloc_coherent+ 0x73/0xe0
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_
Jun 9 08:07:21 cheren kernel: [ 1534.014881] [<c01087d3>] dma_generic_
...snip...