From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50B26B006A for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:55:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zps35.corp.google.com (zps35.corp.google.com [172.25.146.35]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id n6FJtnSg024273 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:55:50 -0700 Received: from pxi6 (pxi6.prod.google.com [10.243.27.6]) by zps35.corp.google.com with ESMTP id n6FJtk9C024383 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:55:47 -0700 Received: by pxi6 with SMTP id 6so1218025pxi.29 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:55:42 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] page-allocator: Allow too high-order warning messages to be suppressed with __GFP_NOWARN In-Reply-To: <1247656992-19846-2-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <1247656992-19846-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1247656992-19846-2-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Memory Management List , Heinz Diehl , David Miller , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo List-ID: On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > The page allocator warns once when an order >= MAX_ORDER is specified. > This is to catch callers of the allocator that are always falling back > to their worst-case when it was not expected. However, there are cases > where the caller is behaving correctly but cannot suppress the warning. > This patch allows the warning to be suppressed by the callers by > specifying __GFP_NOWARN. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: David Rientjes -- 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