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

From: Marek Szyprowski

Date: Mon Dec 08 2025 - 03:42:07 EST


On 02.12.2025 16:28, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> atomic_pool_expand iterately tries the allocation while decrementing the
> page order. There is no need to issue a warning if an attempted
> allocation fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>

Fixes: d7e673ec2c8e ("dma-pool: Only allocate from CMA when in same
memory zone")

Applied to dma-mapping-fixes branch with typo in commit message fixed.

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

Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland