[ale] Badness in out_of_memory/oom_kill.c

[Greg Freemyer]

Where should I report this kernel issue?

I'm pretty sure there are several mailing-lists associated with the
kernel, and I don't know which one would be best for this.  (Or maybe
just to SuSE, since it is there 2.6.8 kernel).

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I can repeatedly cause the below in /var/log/warn, and my command
reports terminated.

Jan  6 10:42:01 tapeserver kernel: Badness in out_of_memory at mm/oom_kill.c:252
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0139492>] out_of_memory+0x22/0xc0
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0140f71>] try_to_free_pages+0x181/0x190
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c013a5ff>] __alloc_pages+0x28f/0x3b0
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c013cf7c>]
do_page_cache_readahead+0xec/0x130
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c01375af>] filemap_nopage+0x23f/0x310
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c014414e>] do_no_page+0x9e/0x270
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c01444d2>] handle_mm_fault+0xf2/0x120
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c01179d7>] do_page_fault+0x1c7/0x5bf
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0117810>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x5bf
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0106d9d>] error_code+0x2d/0x40
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c016129a>] poll_freewait+0x3a/0x50
Jan  6 10:42:12 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0161ee0>] sys_poll+0x150/0x220
Jan  6 10:42:20 tapeserver kernel:  [<c01612b0>] __pollwait+0x0/0xa0
Jan  6 10:42:21 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0117810>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x5bf
Jan  6 10:42:21 tapeserver kernel:  [<c0106d9d>] error_code+0x2d/0x40

I have 256 MB of RAM on an Intel machine, and I am issueing the
userspace command dosfsck /dev/hdc1.  hdc1 is a 250 GB FAT32 partition
with 200+ GB of data on it.

Thanks
Greg
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Greg Freemyer