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Date:   Sun, 25 Jun 2023 10:46:23 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc:     Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        "kunit-dev@...glegroups.com" <kunit-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        "lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org" <lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: next: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1200 at mm/page_alloc.c:4744 __alloc_pages+0x2e8/0x3a0

On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 10:54 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 01:56:30PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> > > On May 12, 2023, at 6:32 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> wrote:
> > > I'm pretty sure Chuck Lever did this intentionally, but he's not on the
> > > CC list.  Let's add him.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > dan carpenter
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 06:15:04PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > >> Following kernel warning has been noticed on qemu-arm64 while running kunit
> > >> tests while booting Linux 6.4.0-rc1-next-20230512 and It was started from
> > >> 6.3.0-rc7-next-20230420.
> > >>
> > >> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
> > >>
> > >> This is always reproducible on qemu-arm64, qemu-arm, qemu-x86 and qemu-i386.
> > >> Is this expected warning as a part of kunit tests ?
> >
> > Dan's correct, this Kunit test is supposed to check the
> > behavior of the API when a too-large privsize is specified.
> >
> > I'm not sure how to make this work without the superfluous
> > warning. Would adding GFP_NOWARN to the allocation help?
>
> That would silence the splat, yes.

But introduce a build failure, as GFP_NOWARN does not exist.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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