Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756242AbZGOTz5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:55:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756145AbZGOTz4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:55:56 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:20447 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756174AbZGOTzz (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:55:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id: references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-system-of-record; b=aHGX5awAe3QxdBjGf7X/V2FZbGls/nc5r6p8/x4QiPmYyPtxbAjqlrO0/PqSD43qq sUjShe9D+pGanaAIR00Dw== Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:55:42 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com 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 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> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 17 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 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/