On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Sasha Levin wrote:
I think that leaving the warning makes sense to catch similar things which are actually bugs - we had a similar issue with /dev/kmsg (if I remember correctly) which actually pointed to a bug.
On 6/11/13 6:14 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Right. Requesting an allocation larger than even supported by the page allocator from the slab allocators that are specializing in allocations of small objects is usually an indication of a problem in the code.
So you're OK with going forward with Sasha's patch? It's needed because __GFP_NOWARN was specifically added there to fix this issue earlier. Pekka -- 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>