linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] use __GFP_NOWARN in page cgroup allocation

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Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:05:24 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use __GFP_NOWARN in page cgroup allocation

* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> [2009-02-04 17:09:44]:

> This was recommended in
> "kmalloc-return-null-instead-of-link-failure.patch added to -mm tree" thread
> in the last month.
> Thanks,
> -Kame
> =
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> page_cgroup's page allocation at init/memory hotplug uses kmalloc() and
> vmalloc(). If kmalloc() failes, vmalloc() is used.
> 
> This is because vmalloc() is very limited resource on 32bit systems.
> We want to use kmalloc() first.
> 
> But in this kind of call, __GFP_NOWARN should be specified.
> 
> Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
> Index: mmotm-2.6.29-Feb03/mm/page_cgroup.c
> ===================================================================
> --- mmotm-2.6.29-Feb03.orig/mm/page_cgroup.c
> +++ mmotm-2.6.29-Feb03/mm/page_cgroup.c
> @@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ static int __init_refok init_section_pag
>  		nid = page_to_nid(pfn_to_page(pfn));
>  		table_size = sizeof(struct page_cgroup) * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
>  		if (slab_is_available()) {
> -			base = kmalloc_node(table_size, GFP_KERNEL, nid);
> +			base = kmalloc_node(table_size,
> +					GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, nid);

Thanks for getting to this.

>  			if (!base)
>  				base = vmalloc_node(table_size, nid);
>  		} else {

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>


-- 
	Balbir
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