Re: [PATCH] vmemmap, memory_hotplug: fallback to base pages for vmmap

[Johannes Weiner]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 04:25:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Ohh, scratch that. The patch is bogus. I have completely missed that
> vmemmap_populate_hugepages already falls back to
> vmemmap_populate_basepages. I have to revisit the bug report I have
> received to see what happened apart from the allocation warning. Maybe
> we just want to silent that warning.

Yep, this should be fixed in 8e2cdbcb86b0 ("x86-64: fall back to
regular page vmemmap on allocation failure").

I figure it's good to keep some sort of warning there, though, as it
could have performance implications when we fall back to base pages.