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author | Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2006-10-28 10:38:32 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-28 11:30:52 -0700 |
commit | f2d0aa5bf8d4f7ae4cb1a7feebf5b1afddd0b9b0 (patch) | |
tree | f018b4472a40d6ed1d815b68a716f29991993aba /mm/sparse.c | |
parent | 969b755aadf7bcf3df5991a127a103acd0145a52 (diff) |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/sparse.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/sparse.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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; |