Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757102AbZCTKCx (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:02:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754542AbZCTKCh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:02:37 -0400 Received: from gir.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.77]:55038 "EHLO gir.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753613AbZCTKCg (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:02:36 -0400 From: Mel Gorman To: Mel Gorman , Linux Memory Management List Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Christoph Lameter , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lin Ming , Zhang Yanmin , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH 02/25] Do not sanity check order in the fast path Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:02:49 +0000 Message-Id: <1237543392-11797-3-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.6.5 In-Reply-To: <1237543392-11797-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> References: <1237543392-11797-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1830 Lines: 56 No user of the allocator API should be passing in an order >= MAX_ORDER but we check for it on each and every allocation. Delete this check and make it a VM_BUG_ON check further down the call path. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter --- include/linux/gfp.h | 6 ------ mm/page_alloc.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index dcf0ab8..8736047 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -181,9 +181,6 @@ __alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) { - if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER)) - return NULL; - /* Unknown node is current node */ if (nid < 0) nid = numa_node_id(); @@ -197,9 +194,6 @@ extern struct page *alloc_pages_current(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order); static inline struct page * alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) { - if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER)) - return NULL; - return alloc_pages_current(gfp_mask, order); } extern struct page *alloc_page_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask, diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 0671b3f..dd87dad 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1407,6 +1407,8 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned int order, classzone_idx = zone_idx(preferred_zone); + VM_BUG_ON(order >= MAX_ORDER); + zonelist_scan: /* * Scan zonelist, looking for a zone with enough free. -- 1.5.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/