page-allocator: allow too high-order warning messages to be suppressed with __GFP_NOWARN
authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:04:08 +0000 (15:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:10:35 +0000 (19:10 -0700)
commit1fc28b70fe2dbf87e061b6ce5091a1f8e4e5d4e7
tree35c109a52c3dd8a509b5dd1318eb4963b45a8b01
parent887032670d47366a8c8f25396ea7c14b7b2cc620
page-allocator: allow too high-order warning messages to be suppressed with __GFP_NOWARN

The page allocator warns once when an order >= MAX_ORDER is specified.
This is to catch callers of the allocator that are always falling back to
their worst-case when it was not expected.  However, there are cases where
the caller is behaving correctly but cannot suppress the warning.  This
patch allows the warning to be suppressed by the callers by specifying
__GFP_NOWARN.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c