From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756193AbdD0SDp (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:03:45 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-f195.google.com ([209.85.216.195]:36567 "EHLO mail-qt0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752600AbdD0SDg (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:03:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: Silence vmap() allocation failures based on caller gfp_flags To: Michal Hocko References: <20170427173900.2538-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20170427173900.2538-2-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20170427175653.GB30672@dhcp22.suse.cz> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Ard Biesheuvel , Andrew Morton , zijun_hu , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Andrey Ryabinin , Chris Wilson , open list , "open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" , angus@angusclark.org From: Florian Fainelli Message-ID: <416a788c-6160-1ce8-fccc-839f719b2a88@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:03:31 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170427175653.GB30672@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/27/2017 10:56 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 27-04-17 10:38:58, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> If the caller has set __GFP_NOWARN don't print the following message: >> vmap allocation for size 15736832 failed: use vmalloc= to increase >> size. >> >> This can happen with the ARM/Linux or ARM64/Linux module loader built >> with CONFIG_ARM{,64}_MODULE_PLTS=y which does a first attempt at loading >> a large module from module space, then falls back to vmalloc space. >> >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko > > just a nit > >> --- >> mm/vmalloc.c | 4 ++++ >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c >> index 0b057628a7ba..d8a851634674 100644 >> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c >> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c >> @@ -521,9 +521,13 @@ static struct vmap_area *alloc_vmap_area(unsigned long size, >> } >> } >> >> + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) >> + goto out; >> + >> if (printk_ratelimit()) > > if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) && printk_ratelimit()) >> pr_warn("vmap allocation for size %lu failed: use vmalloc= to increase size\n", >> size); > > would be shorter and you wouldn't need the goto and a label. Do you want me to resubmit with that change included? -- Florian