linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] profile: Suppress warning about large allocations when profile=1 is specified

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:12:20 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Heinz Diehl <htd@...cy-poultry.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] profile: Suppress warning about large allocations when profile=1 is specified

> When profile= is used, a large buffer is allocated early at boot. This
> can be larger than what the page allocator can provide so it prints a
> warning. However, the caller is able to handle the situation so this patch
> suppresses the warning.

I'm confused.

Currently caller doesn't handle error return.

----------------------------------------------------------
asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
{
(snip)
        init_timers();
        hrtimers_init();
        softirq_init();
        timekeeping_init();
        time_init();
        sched_clock_init();
        profile_init();           <-- ignore return value
------------------------------------------------------------

and, if user want to use linus profiler, the user should choice select
proper bucket size by boot parameter.
Currently, allocation failure message tell user about specified bucket size
is wrong.
I think this patch hide it.


> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> ---
>  kernel/profile.c |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c
> index 69911b5..419250e 100644
> --- a/kernel/profile.c
> +++ b/kernel/profile.c
> @@ -117,11 +117,12 @@ int __ref profile_init(void)
>  
>  	cpumask_copy(prof_cpu_mask, cpu_possible_mask);
>  
> -	prof_buffer = kzalloc(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	prof_buffer = kzalloc(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN);
>  	if (prof_buffer)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	prof_buffer = alloc_pages_exact(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO);
> +	prof_buffer = alloc_pages_exact(buffer_bytes,
> +					GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOWARN);
>  	if (prof_buffer)
>  		return 0;



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