Commit 1fc28b70 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds

page-allocator: allow too high-order warning messages to be suppressed with __GFP_NOWARN

The page allocator warns once when an order >= MAX_ORDER is specified.
This is to catch callers of the allocator that are always falling back to
their worst-case when it was not expected.  However, there are cases where
the caller is behaving correctly but cannot suppress the warning.  This
patch allows the warning to be suppressed by the callers by specifying
__GFP_NOWARN.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 88703267
......@@ -1745,8 +1745,10 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
* be using allocators in order of preference for an area that is
* too large.
*/
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order >= MAX_ORDER))
if (order >= MAX_ORDER) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN));
return NULL;
}
/*
* GFP_THISNODE (meaning __GFP_THISNODE, __GFP_NORETRY and
......
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