Re: [PATCH] dma/pool: eliminate alloc_pages warning in atomic_pool_expand

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Tue Dec 02 2025 - 10:47:21 EST


On 2025-12-02 3:28 pm, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
atomic_pool_expand iterately tries the allocation while decrementing the

"iteratively"?

page order. There is no need to issue a warning if an attempted
allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/dma/pool.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/dma/pool.c b/kernel/dma/pool.c
index ee45dee33d49..26392badc36b 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/pool.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/pool.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static int atomic_pool_expand(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t pool_size,
page = dma_alloc_from_contiguous(NULL, 1 << order,
order, false);
if (!page)
- page = alloc_pages(gfp, order);
+ page = alloc_pages(gfp | __GFP_NOWARN, order);

Might be nice to keep some kind of warning if we entirely fail all the way down to order 0, although I guess if it matters it would show up via the warning on dma_alloc_from_pool() failure soon enough anyway...

Either way it certainly makes sense in general;

Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>

} while (!page && order-- > 0);
if (!page)
goto out;