linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: do not output a spurious warning when huge vmalloc() fails

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Message-ID: <2126cc69-b779-565b-98c7-4fbb0bf9f557@suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 26 Jun 2023 11:08:31 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>, Forza <forza@...nline.net>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Linux btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Regressions <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, a1bert@...as.cz,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: do not output a spurious warning when huge
 vmalloc() fails

On 6/25/23 17:59, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 05:40:17PM +0200, Forza wrote:
>>
>>
>> ---- From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> -- Sent: 2023-06-07 - 18:33 ----
>>
>> > On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 10:58:40 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I would really suggest moving the fix to
>> >> mm-hotfixes instead of mm-unstable, and
>> >>
>> >> Fixes: 80b1d8fdfad1 ("mm: vmalloc: correct use of __GFP_NOWARN mask in __vmalloc_area_node()")
>> >> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
>> >
>> > I've made those changes.
>>
>> Did the chabge go into 6.3 stable? I saw these issues with kernels 6.3.0-6 3.7. I now updated to 6.3.9 and have had no more warnings since.
> 
> Yeah, got the notification from Greg's script that it landed in 6.3 stable.

It did, but was not yet released. 6.3.9 from Wed Jun 21 doesn't have it yet,
so it's interesting the warnings are gone already.

>>