On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 06:34:30PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Perform the same debug checks in alloc_pages_node() as are done in > __alloc_pages_node(), by making the former function a wrapper of the latter > one. > > In addition to better diagnostics in DEBUG_VM builds for situations which > have been already fatal (e.g. out-of-bounds node id), there are two visible > changes for potential existing buggy callers of alloc_pages_node(): > > - calling alloc_pages_node() with any negative nid (e.g. due to arithmetic > overflow) was treated as passing NUMA_NO_NODE and fallback to local node was > applied. This will now be fatal. > - calling alloc_pages_node() with an offline node will now be checked for > DEBUG_VM builds. Since it's not fatal if the node has been previously online, > and this patch may expose some existing buggy callers, change the VM_BUG_ON > in __alloc_pages_node() to VM_WARN_ON. > > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
