Error message applying update

[Orion Poplawski]

Tried to apply an update and seemed to put the machine into a bad state. 
  syslog reported:

Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: firmware/dell_r: page allocation failure. 
order:9, mode:0xd0
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0405018>] dump_trace+0x69/0x1b6
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c040517d>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0405778>] show_trace+0xf/0x11
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0405875>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c045cf74>] __alloc_pages+0x299/0x2aa
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c045cfb1>] __get_free_pages+0x2c/0x3a
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<e00cd5b8>] callbackfn_rbu+0xaf/0x363 
[dell_rbu]
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c05624b4>] 
request_firmware_work_func+0x76/0xbe
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0439878>] kthread+0xc0/0xec
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  [<c0404c03>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel:  =======================
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Mem-info:
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: DMA per-cpu:
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: CPU    0: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0 
   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: CPU    1: Hot: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0 
   Cold: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Normal per-cpu:
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: CPU    0: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  69 
   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  50
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: CPU    1: Hot: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 182 
   Cold: hi:   62, btch:  15 usd:  59
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Active:64441 inactive:40189 dirty:206 
writeback:0 unstable:0 free:2641 slab:14353 mapped:11406 pagetables:1422
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: DMA free:2712kB min:88kB low:108kB 
high:132kB active:6512kB inactive:1204kB present:16256kB 
pages_scanned:33 all_unreclaimable? no
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 482 482
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Normal free:7912kB min:2764kB low:3452kB 
high:4144kB active:251252kB inactive:159552kB present:494288kB 
pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: DMA: 144*4kB 11*8kB 2*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 
1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2712kB
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Normal: 519*4kB 319*8kB 15*16kB 1*32kB 
0*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 7972kB
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Swap cache: add 35051, delete 26707, find 
22843/24845, race 0+0
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Free swap  = 947600kB
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Total swap = 1012052kB
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: Free swap:       947600kB
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 128641 pages of RAM
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 0 pages of HIGHMEM
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 2371 reserved pages
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 68399 pages shared
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 8345 pages swap cached
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 206 pages dirty
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 0 pages writeback
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 11406 pages mapped
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 14353 pages slab
Feb 23 09:23:04 moa kernel: 1422 pages pagetables


update_firmware reports:

Checking system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x01c2) - a05
         Found Update: system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x01c2) - a07

This is a Dell Latitude D620.

Any ideas?

Haven't tried again yet....

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Orion Poplawski
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NWRA/CoRA Division                    FAX: 303-415-9702
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