On Tue 11-07-17 17:45:41, Johannes Weiner wrote: [...] > diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c > index a56c3989f773..efd3f48c667c 100644 > --- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c > +++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c > @@ -52,18 +52,24 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node) > { > /* If the main allocator is up use that, fallback to bootmem. */ > if (slab_is_available()) { > + unsigned int order; > + static int warned; > struct page *page; > + gfp_t gfp_mask; > > + order = get_order(size); > + gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN; why not do gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_REPEAT; if (warned) gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN; and get the actual allocation warning from the allocation context. Then we can keep the warning vmemmap_populate_hugepages because that would be more descriptive that what is going on. Btw. __GFP_REPEAT has been replaced by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL in mmotm tree. > if (node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY)) > - page = alloc_pages_node( > - node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT, > - get_order(size)); > + page = alloc_pages_node(node, gfp_mask, size); > else > - page = alloc_pages( > - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT, > - get_order(size)); > + page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, size); > if (page) > return page_address(page); > + if (!warned) { > + warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL, > + "vmemmap alloc failure: order:%u", order); > + warned = 1; > + } > return NULL; > } else > return __earlyonly_bootmem_alloc(node, size, size, -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>