At seemingly random points in time kwin_x11 freezes the desktop for several seconds, and after that it unfreezes with a notification that compositing was restarted. In the system logs I can see that there was a page allocation failure in the kernel module: [87398.720448] kwin_x11: page allocation f…

One observation I made is that this problem is more likely to reproduce when there is a lot of filesystem IO is happening. For example, when a large (multi-gigabyte) directory with lots of files (tens/hundreds of thousands) is being copied between partitions on an SSD.

[ 637.274559] nvidia-modeset/: page allocation failure: order:4,... Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time. I’ve got another one! And yes, the problem probably oc…

We’re looking into this type of allocation failure and for future reference, it’s being tracked internally in bug number 3032665.

The same happens with 455.26.01. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (298.9 KB) kern.log (177.5 KB)

I’m having these, too. nvidia-modeset/: page allocation failure, not kwin or xorg as others experienced. I was moving files from an external HDD to another when suddenly at least everything visual froze, music did stop too though. Doing Ctrl+alt+f2 and then f1 did help a couple of times, but after t…

I also just experienced what seems to be the same issue while running chromium. I have RTX 2070 SUPER on Arch Linux, with driver 455.28-7 and GNOME DE. I experienced a complete freeze on my desktop, and the cursor disappeared. Like bogus12, repeatedly trying to switch ttys eventually fixed the issu…

I have had this error for maybe 2-3 weeks now too. During this time i have been using the latest Arch Linux 5.8.X kernels and the “top of the line newest” nvidia drivers (at the moment 455.28-1). In most cases the freeze bug happens while using web browsers (chromium, firefox, vivalid all are affect…

Is there any way to follow the “3032665” in some way or are there no options to get updates directly ?

There’s no way to get updates directly, sorry. We’ve made a change that should avoid this problem in the future. It’ll be available in a future release.

455.23.04: Page allocation failure in kernel module at random points

Graphics / Linux Linux

ranger671 October 15, 2020, 11:42pm 9

Wanted to chip in here. I believe I am experiencing the same issue. I am attaching the log info here. For addition, my system is a 9900k with 32gb, RTX 2080, with drivers 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2.X11pagefault.txt (26.0 KB)

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[BUG] Nvidia 440.64 + kernel 5.5.6/stable -- boot trace; WAS Nvidia 440.59 + kernel 5.5.1/stable -- boot trace Linux	24	6024	March 24, 2020
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455.23.04: Page allocation failure in kernel module at random points

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