[kdump] swapper/0: page allocation failure reported while loading the kdump kernel.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Multiple swapper/0: page allocation failure messages reported while loading the kdump kernel.
[    0.132154] DMA: preallocated 128 KiB GFP_KERNEL pool for atomic allocations
[    0.133022] swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:5, mode:0x6000c1(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
[    0.134002] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G          I      --------- -  - 4.18.0-348.el8.x86_64 #1
[    0.135000] Hardware name: -- 2288H V5/BC11SPSCB0, BIOS 8.23 12/30/2021
[    0.135000] Call Trace:
[    0.135000]  dump_stack+0x5c/0x80
[    0.135000]  warn_alloc.cold.114+0x7b/0x10d
[    0.135000]  ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30
[    0.135000]  ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x157/0x160
[    0.135000]  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xc87/0xcd0
[    0.135000]  ? up+0x12/0x50
[    0.135000]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2db/0x310
[    0.135000]  ? do_early_param+0x91/0x91
[    0.135000]  alloc_page_interleave+0x13/0x70
[    0.135000]  atomic_pool_expand+0x4e/0x160
[    0.135000]  ? do_early_param+0x91/0x91
[    0.135000]  __dma_atomic_pool_init+0x44/0x90
[    0.135000]  dma_atomic_pool_init+0xa9/0x14b
[    0.135000]  ? __dma_atomic_pool_init+0x90/0x90
[    0.135000]  do_one_initcall+0x46/0x1d0
[    0.135000]  ? do_early_param+0x91/0x91
[    0.135000]  kernel_init_freeable+0x1af/0x228
[    0.135000]  ? rest_init+0xaa/0xaa
[    0.135000]  kernel_init+0xa/0xf6
[    0.135000]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5
  • Kdump

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