I just built a new platform with intel Arrow lake
ASUS Pro WS W880-ACE SE + Core Ultra 7 265K
the system boots fine, but when inspecting kernel logs for anything odd, i observed these trace.
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[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:12, mode:0xcc1(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.33-production+truenas #1
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/Pro WS W880-ACE SE, BIOS 1802 09/23/2025
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] Call Trace:
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025]
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] warn_alloc+0x164/0x1e0
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xaf/0x2b0
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x323/0xe20
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] __alloc_pages_noprof+0x30e/0x330
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x8f/0x1f0
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] atomic_pool_expand+0x74/0x1f0
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] __dma_atomic_pool_init+0x49/0xb0
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] dma_atomic_pool_init+0x13d/0x160
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] ? __pfx_dma_atomic_pool_init+0x10/0x10
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] do_one_initcall+0x58/0x320
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] kernel_init_freeable+0x31b/0x460
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] kernel_init+0x1a/0x1c0
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025]
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] Mem-Info:
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0
slab_reclaimable:26 slab_unreclaimable:2118
mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:70
sec_pagetables:516 bounce:0
kernel_misc_reclaimable:0
free:24487007 free_pcp:0 free_cma:61440
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] Node 0 active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB shmem:0kB shmem_thp:0kB shmem_pmdmapped:0kB anon_thp:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB kernel_stack:2668kB pagetables:280kB sec_pagetables:2064kB all_unreclaimable? no
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] Node 0 DMA free:15360kB boost:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15992kB managed:15360kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] lowmem_reserve: 0 0 0 0 0
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] Node 0 DMA: 04kB 08kB 016kB 032kB 064kB 0128kB 0256kB 0512kB 11024kB (U) 12048kB (M) 14096kB (M) 18192kB (M) 016384kB 032768kB 0*65536kB = 15360kB
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] 0 total pagecache pages
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] 0 pages in swap cache
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] Free swap = 0kB
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] Total swap = 0kB
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] 24962977 pages RAM
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] 465707 pages reserved
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] 65536 pages cma reserved
[Sat Nov 29 09:15:01 2025] 0 pages hwpoisoned
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after some googling, this seems to allocate 16MB on dma area where system only provides 15MB. Can i safely ignore these messages on boot? I am not sure if this is a kernel config issue, or a motherboard BIOS issue.