Re: [PATCH] mm/failslab: By default, do not fail allocations with direct reclaim only

From: kbuild test robot
Date: Tue May 21 2019 - 04:03:34 EST


Hi Nicolas,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on linus/master]
[also build test WARNING on v5.2-rc1 next-20190520]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Nicolas-Boichat/mm-failslab-By-default-do-not-fail-allocations-with-direct-reclaim-only/20190521-045221
reproduce:
# apt-get install sparse
make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig
make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__'

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>


sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)

>> mm/failslab.c:27:26: sparse: sparse: restricted gfp_t degrades to integer

vim +27 mm/failslab.c

16
17 bool __should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags)
18 {
19 /* No fault-injection for bootstrap cache */
20 if (unlikely(s == kmem_cache))
21 return false;
22
23 if (gfpflags & __GFP_NOFAIL)
24 return false;
25
26 if (failslab.ignore_gfp_reclaim &&
> 27 (gfpflags & ___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
28 return false;
29
30 if (failslab.cache_filter && !(s->flags & SLAB_FAILSLAB))
31 return false;
32
33 return should_fail(&failslab.attr, s->object_size);
34 }
35

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