linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, sparse: do not swamp log with huge vmemmap allocation failures

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Date:   Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:06:35 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, sparse: do not swamp log with huge vmemmap
 allocation failures

Dohh, forgot to git add the follow up fix on top of Johannes' original
diff so it didn't make it into the finall commit. Could you fold this
into the patch Andrew, please?

Sorry about that.
---
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 3f85084cb8bb..9a745e2a6f9a 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
 			return page_address(page);
 
 		if (!warned) {
-			warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL, "vmemmap alloc failure: order:%u", order);
+			warn_alloc(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_NOWARN, NULL, "vmemmap alloc failure: order:%u", order);
 			warned = true;
 		}
 		return NULL;
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs