System becomes unresponsive with "page allocation failure" messages

Issue

Following error messages have been observed in log messages for different versions of RHEL:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

• Page allocation failure occurs at order:2

[7881991.439633] in:imjournal: page allocation failure: order:2, mode:0x104020
[7881991.439637] CPU: 2 PID: 1453 Comm: in:imjournal Kdump: loaded Tainted: P           OE  ------------ T 3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[7881991.439639] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 04/05/2016

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

• Page allocation failure occurs at order:3

java: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x820
 Pid: 26684, comm: java Tainted: P        W  ---------------    2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1