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mm: page_alloc: __GFP_NOWARN shouldn't suppress stall warnings
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Wed, 3 May 2017 21:53:48 +0000 (14:53 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 3 May 2017 22:52:09 +0000 (15:52 -0700)
commit92086c22f4d553d6da95d9d346bae15202de626f
treec71aab42c56f2cebd473e5b92074ca6afe9db6f1
parent729e1cbe7b0dcb5e4e91e25a892dbae4236fb312
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.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c