[PATCH] mm/page_alloc: avoid high-order page allocation warn with __GFP_NOFAIL

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Sun Mar 05 2023 - 00:31:01 EST


My knowledge of this is somewhat limited, however, since vmalloc already
supported __GFP_NOFAIL in commit 9376130c390a ("mm/vmalloc: add
support for __GFP_NOFAIL"). __GFP_NOFAIL could trigger the following
stack and allocate high-order pages when CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
is enabled:

__alloc_pages+0x1cb/0x5b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5549
alloc_pages+0x1aa/0x270 mm/mempolicy.c:2286
vm_area_alloc_pages mm/vmalloc.c:2989 [inline]
__vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:3057 [inline]
__vmalloc_node_range+0x978/0x13c0 mm/vmalloc.c:3227
kvmalloc_node+0x156/0x1a0 mm/util.c:606
kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:737 [inline]
kvmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:755 [inline]
kvcalloc include/linux/slab.h:760 [inline]
(codebase: Linux 6.2-rc2)

Don't warn such cases since high-order pages with __GFP_NOFAIL is
somewhat legel.

Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 0745aedebb37..0618716c49df 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3822,12 +3822,6 @@ struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
{
struct page *page;

- /*
- * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
- * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
- */
- WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));
-
if (likely(pcp_allowed_order(order))) {
/*
* MIGRATE_MOVABLE pcplist could have the pages on CMA area and
--
2.24.4