From f2d0aa5bf8d4f7ae4cb1a7feebf5b1afddd0b9b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:38:32 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] memory hotplug: __GFP_NOWARN is better for __kmalloc_section_memmap() Add __GFP_NOWARN flag to calling of __alloc_pages() in __kmalloc_section_memmap(). It can reduce noisy failure message. In ia64, section size is 1 GB, this means that order 8 pages are necessary for each section's memmap. It is often very hard requirement under heavy memory pressure as you know. So, __alloc_pages() gives up allocation and shows many noisy stack traces which means no page for each sections. (Current my environment shows 32 times of stack trace....) But, __kmalloc_section_memmap() calls vmalloc() after failure of it, and it can succeed allocation of memmap. So, its stack trace warning becomes just noisy. I suppose it shouldn't be shown. Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> --- mm/sparse.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index 86c52ab80878..b3c82ba30012 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static struct page *__kmalloc_section_memmap(unsigned long nr_pages) struct page *page, *ret; unsigned long memmap_size = sizeof(struct page) * nr_pages; - page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, get_order(memmap_size)); + page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN, get_order(memmap_size)); if (page) goto got_map_page; -- cgit v1.2.3