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Commit 903edea6 authored by Barry Song's avatar Barry Song Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm: warn about illegal __GFP_NOFAIL usage in a more appropriate location and manner

Three points for this change:

1. We should consolidate all warnings in one place. Currently, the
   order > 1 warning is in the hotpath, while others are in less
   likely scenarios. Moving all warnings to the slowpath will reduce
   the overhead for order > 1 and increase the visibility of other
   warnings.

2. We currently have two warnings for order: one for order > 1 in
   the hotpath and another for order > costly_order in the laziest
   path. I suggest standardizing on order > 1 since it's been in
   use for a long time.

3. We don't need to check for __GFP_NOWARN in this case. __GFP_NOWARN
   is meant to suppress allocation failure reports, but here we're
   dealing with bug detection, not allocation failures. So replace
   WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP by WARN_ON_ONCE.

[v-songbaohua@oppo.com: also update the doc for __GFP_NOFAIL with order > 1]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240903223935.1697-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240830202823.21478-4-21cnbao@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarBarry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: Hailong.Liu <hailong.liu@oppo.com>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 17d75422
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