Don't warn about order-1 allocations with __GFP_NOFAIL
Traditionally, we never failed small orders (even regardless of any
__GFP_NOFAIL flags), and slab will allocate order-1 allocations even for
small allocations that could fit in a single page (in order to avoid
excessive fragmentation).
Maybe we should remove this warning entirely, but before making that
judgement, at least limit it to bigger allocations.
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index aecc9cd..5d714f8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1153,10 +1153,10 @@
* properly detect and handle allocation failures.
*
* We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
- * allocate greater than single-page units with
+ * allocate greater than order-1 page units with
* __GFP_NOFAIL.
*/
- WARN_ON_ONCE(order > 0);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(order > 1);
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);