Commit 82251963 authored by Johannes Weiner's avatar Johannes Weiner Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: page_alloc: __GFP_NOWARN shouldn't suppress stall warnings

__GFP_NOWARN, which is usually added to avoid warnings from callsites
that expect to fail and have fallbacks, currently also suppresses
allocation stall warnings.  These trigger when an allocation is stuck
inside the allocator for 10 seconds or longer.

But there is no class of allocations that can get legitimately stuck in
the allocator for this long.  This always indicates a problem.

Always emit stall warnings.  Restrict __GFP_NOWARN to alloc failures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170125181150.GA16398@cmpxchg.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent e716f2eb
......@@ -3751,7 +3751,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
/* Make sure we know about allocations which stall for too long */
if (time_after(jiffies, alloc_start + stall_timeout)) {
warn_alloc(gfp_mask, ac->nodemask,
warn_alloc(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_NOWARN, ac->nodemask,
"page allocation stalls for %ums, order:%u",
jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies-alloc_start), order);
stall_timeout += 10 * HZ;
......
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