From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx117.postini.com [74.125.245.117]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94DF46B0034 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:14:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:14:51 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: prevent warnings when allocating with __GFP_NOWARN In-Reply-To: <51B72323.8040207@oracle.com> Message-ID: <0000013f33cdc631-eadb07d1-ef08-4e2c-a218-1997eb86cde9-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1370891880-2644-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <51B62F6B.8040308@oracle.com> <0000013f3075f90d-735942a8-b4b8-413f-a09e-57d1de0c4974-000000@email.amazonses.com> <51B67553.6020205@oracle.com> <51B72323.8040207@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Sasha Levin Cc: Pekka Enberg , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Andrew Morton , LKML On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Sasha Levin wrote: > I think that leaving the warning makes sense to catch similar > things which are actually bugs - we had a similar issue with > /dev/kmsg (if I remember correctly) which actually pointed to > a bug. Right. Requesting an allocation larger than even supported by the page allocator from the slab allocators that are specializing in allocations of small objects is usually an indication of a problem in the code. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org