[PLUG] problem inserting modules

[Abu M. Muttalib]

    Hi,

    I am running linux kernel 2.6 on an embedded system. In my application I
    have executed the following command
    system ("cat /proc/meminfo")
    I see the following

    MemTotal:        13864 kB
    MemFree:           664 kB
    Buffers:          1588 kB
    Cached:           5452 kB
    SwapCached:          0 kB
    Active:           5280 kB
    Inactive:         3720 kB
    HighTotal:           0 kB
    HighFree:            0 kB
    LowTotal:        13864 kB
    LowFree:           664 kB
    SwapTotal:           0 kB
    SwapFree:            0 kB
    Dirty:               0 kB
    Writeback:           0 kB
    Mapped:           4664 kB
    Slab:             1596 kB
    CommitLimit:      6932 kB
    Committed_AS:    22300 kB
    PageTables:        172 kB
    VmallocTotal:   630784 kB
    VmallocUsed:    262576 kB
    VmallocChunk:   366588 kB

    Then subsequently I am inserting one module i get the
    "page allocation failure"

    and I get the following error message tho' kernel...

    ***************************************************************

    insmod: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0
    Mem-info:
    DMA per-cpu:
    cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 used:5
    cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 used:1
    Normal per-cpu: empty
    HighMem per-cpu: empty
    Free pages:        1216kB (0kB HighMem)
    Active:1494 inactive:674 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:304
slab:401
    mapped:1259 pagetables:46
    DMA free:1216kB min:512kB low:640kB high:768kB active:5976kB
inactive:2696kB
    present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
    lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
    Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB
present:0kB
    pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
    lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
    HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB
    present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
    lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
    DMA: 18*4kB 51*8kB 28*16kB 1*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB
0*1024kB =
    1216kB
    Normal: empty
    HighMem: empty
    Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0
    Free swap  = 0kB
    Total swap = 0kB
    Free swap:            0kB
    4096 pages of RAM
    382 free pages
    701 reserved pages
    401 slab pages
    1570 pages shared
    0 pages swap cached

    ***************************************************************

    Now I again run the command
    system ("cat /proc/meminfo")
    and now I see the following:

    MemTotal:        13864 kB
    MemFree:          1524 kB
    Buffers:          1244 kB
    Cached:           5224 kB
    SwapCached:          0 kB
    Active:           5776 kB
    Inactive:         2672 kB
    HighTotal:           0 kB
    HighFree:            0 kB
    LowTotal:        13864 kB
    LowFree:          1524 kB
    SwapTotal:           0 kB
    SwapFree:            0 kB
    Dirty:               0 kB
    Writeback:           0 kB
    Mapped:           4676 kB
    Slab:             1604 kB
    CommitLimit:      6932 kB
    Committed_AS:    22168 kB
    PageTables:        172 kB
    VmallocTotal:   630784 kB
    VmallocUsed:    262560 kB
    VmallocChunk:   366588 kB

    Is there any clue? I have some 650 KB free before inserting the module
and
    after that some 1.5 MB free memory space, and still I am not able to
insert
    the module.

    Why it's so? Any help will be highly appreciated.

    ~Abu.