There is no point in using the slab allocation functions for large page order allocation. Use kmalloc_large(). This fixes the warning about large allocs but it will still cause large contiguous allocs that could fail because of memory fragmentation. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Index: linux/fs/seq_file.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/seq_file.c 2013-07-31 10:39:03.050472030 -0500 +++ linux/fs/seq_file.c 2013-07-31 10:39:03.050472030 -0500 @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static int traverse(struct seq_file *m, Eoverflow: m->op->stop(m, p); kfree(m->buf); - m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL); + m->buf = kmalloc_large(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL); return !m->buf ? -ENOMEM : -EAGAIN; } @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char goto Fill; m->op->stop(m, p); kfree(m->buf); - m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL); + m->buf = kmalloc_large(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!m->buf) goto Enomem; m->count = 0; -- 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>