[PATCH v3 06/16] mm/page_alloc: relax GFP WARN in nolock allocs

From: Brendan Jackman

Date: Mon Jun 29 2026 - 09:24:52 EST


This WARN forbids setting other flags than __GFP_ACCOUNT but we
unconditionally set the ones in gfp_nolock so they are certainly fine
for the caller to set.

There are other GFP flags that are almost certainly fine to set here;
Willy noted GFP_HIGHMEM, GFP_DMA, GFP_MOVABLE and GFP_HARDWALL. But,
nolock allocation is rather special, so be conservative to try and
ensure we have a chance to think carefully before nontrivial new
usecases arise.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ajS96fWbG4dzP3u3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 8d409d075e3e9..9cb3f1665b41b 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5355,7 +5355,8 @@ struct page *__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
return NULL;

if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NOLOCK) {
- VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp & ~__GFP_ACCOUNT);
+ /* Certain other flags could be supported later if needed. */
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp & ~(__GFP_ACCOUNT | gfp_nolock));
if (!alloc_trylock_allowed())
return NULL;
gfp |= gfp_nolock;

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