page-allocator: warn if __GFP_NOFAIL is used for a large allocation

__GFP_NOFAIL is a bad fiction.  Allocations _can_ fail, and callers should
detect and suitably handle this (and not by lamely moving the infinite
loop up to the caller level either).

Attempting to use __GFP_NOFAIL for a higher-order allocation is even
worse, so add a once-off runtime check for this to slap people around for
even thinking about trying it.

Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

mm/page_alloc.c

@@ -1128,6 +1128,19 @@ struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 		list_del(&page->lru);
 		pcp->count--;
 	} else {
+		if (unlikely(gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
+			/*
+			 * __GFP_NOFAIL is not to be used in new code.
+			 *
+			 * All __GFP_NOFAIL callers should be fixed so that they
+			 * properly detect and handle allocation failures.
+			 *
+			 * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
+			 * allocate greater than single-page units with
+			 * __GFP_NOFAIL.
+			 */
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(order > 0);
+		}
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
 		page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
 		__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -(1 << order));