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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:08:24 -0700
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm:memcg: add __GFP_NOWARN in
 __memcg_schedule_kmem_cache_create
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:29:12AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> If there are heavy memory pressure, page allocation with __GFP_NOWAIT
> fails easily although it's order-0 request.
> I got below warning 9 times for normal boot.
> 
> [   17.072747] c0 0      <snip >: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x2200000(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_NOTRACK)
> 
> Let's not make user scared.
>  
> -	cw = kmalloc(sizeof(*cw), GFP_NOWAIT);
> +	cw = kmalloc(sizeof(*cw), GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
>  	if (!cw)

Not arguing against this patch.  But how many places do we want to use
GFP_NOWAIT without __GFP_NOWARN?  Not many, and the few which do do this
seem like they simply haven't added it yet.  Maybe this would be a good idea?

-#define GFP_NOWAIT      (__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
+#define GFP_NOWAIT      (__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM | __GFP_NOWARN)