Commit 03497d76 authored Apr 27, 2017 by Florian Fainelli Committed by Catalin Marinas May 11, 2017

mm: Silence vmap() allocation failures based on caller gfp_flags



If the caller has set __GFP_NOWARN don't print the following message:
vmap allocation for size 15736832 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase
size.

This can happen with the ARM/Linux or ARM64/Linux module loader built
with CONFIG_ARM{,64}_MODULE_PLTS=y which does a first attempt at loading
a large module from module space, then falls back to vmalloc space.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

parent d135b8b5

mm/vmalloc.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ overflow:
		}
		}

		if (printk_ratelimit())
		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) && printk_ratelimit())
		pr_warn("vmap allocation for size %lu failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size\n",
		size);
		kfree(va);

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