The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/vmalloc: do not output a spurious warning when huge vmalloc() fails has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-vmalloc-do-not-output-a-spurious-warning-when-huge-vmalloc-fails.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com Subject: mm/vmalloc: do not output a spurious warning when huge vmalloc() fails Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 21:11:07 +0100
In __vmalloc_area_node() we always warn_alloc() when an allocation performed by vm_area_alloc_pages() fails unless it was due to a pending fatal signal.
However, huge page allocations instigated either by vmalloc_huge() or __vmalloc_node_range() (or a caller that invokes this like kvmalloc() or kvmalloc_node()) always falls back to order-0 allocations if the huge page allocation fails.
This renders the warning useless and noisy, especially as all callers appear to be aware that this may fallback. This has already resulted in at least one bug report from a user who was confused by this (see link).
Therefore, simply update the code to only output this warning for order-0 pages when no fatal signal is pending.
Link: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211410 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230605201107.83298-1-lstoakes@gmail.com Fixes: 80b1d8fdfad1 ("mm: vmalloc: correct use of __GFP_NOWARN mask in __vmalloc_area_node()") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Reviewed-by: Baoquan He bhe@redhat.com Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) urezki@gmail.com Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig hch@infradead.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/vmalloc.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-do-not-output-a-spurious-warning-when-huge-vmalloc-fails +++ a/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -3098,11 +3098,20 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct * allocation request, free them via vfree() if any. */ if (area->nr_pages != nr_small_pages) { - /* vm_area_alloc_pages() can also fail due to a fatal signal */ - if (!fatal_signal_pending(current)) + /* + * vm_area_alloc_pages() can fail due to insufficient memory but + * also:- + * + * - a pending fatal signal + * - insufficient huge page-order pages + * + * Since we always retry allocations at order-0 in the huge page + * case a warning for either is spurious. + */ + if (!fatal_signal_pending(current) && page_order == 0) warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL, - "vmalloc error: size %lu, page order %u, failed to allocate pages", - area->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE, page_order); + "vmalloc error: size %lu, failed to allocate pages", + area->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE); goto fail; }
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from lstoakes@gmail.com are