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Tetsuo Handa 0f7896f12b mm, page_alloc: remove debug_guardpage_minorder() test in warn_alloc() 
Commit c0a32fc5a2 ("mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging")
changed to check debug_guardpage_minorder() > 0 when reporting
allocation failures.  The reasoning was

  When we use guard page to debug memory corruption, it shrinks
  available pages to 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and so on, depending on parameter
  value. In such case memory allocation failures can be common and
  printing errors can flood dmesg. If somebody debug corruption,
  allocation failures are not the things he/she is interested about.

but this is misguided.

Allocation requests with __GFP_NOWARN flag by definition do not cause
flooding of allocation failure messages.  Allocation requests with
__GFP_NORETRY flag likely also have __GFP_NOWARN flag.  Costly
allocation requests likely also have __GFP_NOWARN flag.

Allocation requests without __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM flag likely also have
__GFP_NOWARN flag or __GFP_HIGH flag.  Non-costly allocation requests
with __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM flag basically retry forever due to the "too
small to fail" memory-allocation rule.

Therefore, as a whole, shrinking available pages by
debug_guardpage_minorder= kernel boot parameter might cause flooding of
OOM killer messages but unlikely causes flooding of allocation failure
messages.  Let's remove debug_guardpage_minorder() > 0 check which would
likely be pointless.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491910035-4231-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
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kasan kasan: report only the first error by default 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
backing-dev.c bdi: Drop 'parent' argument from bdi_register[_va]() 2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: cosmetic improvement of code readability 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
cleancache.c
cma.c mm: cma: print allocation failure reason and bitmap status 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
cma.h
cma_debug.c mm: cma_alloc: allow to specify GFP mask 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
compaction.c mm/compaction: ignore block suitable after check large free page 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
debug.c mm, debug: print raw struct page data in __dump_page() 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
debug_page_ref.c
dmapool.c lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c mm: fadvise: avoid expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2016-12-20 09:48:46 -08:00
failslab.c
filemap.c mm: tighten up the fault path a little 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
frame_vector.c
frontswap.c
gup.c Revert "x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation" 2017-04-23 11:45:20 +02:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c mm: make ttu's return boolean 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: don't call region_abort if region_chg fails 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: use is_migrate_highatomic() to simplify the code 2017-05-03 15:52:08 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm: remove AVR32 arch special handling in mm/Kconfig 2017-05-01 09:36:31 +02:00
Kconfig.debug mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
khugepaged.c mm: do not use double negation for testing page flags 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: fix section name for .data..ro_after_init 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
ksm.c mm: make rmap_one boolean function 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
list_lru.c
maccess.c
madvise.c mm/madvise: move up the behavior parameter validation 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
Makefile mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA 2017-02-27 18:43:48 -08:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: fix memblock_next_valid_pfn() 2017-03-09 17:01:10 -08:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcg 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm/memory-failure.c: add page flag description in error paths 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
memory.c Merge branch 'parisc-4.11-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux into uaccess.parisc 2017-04-02 10:33:48 -04:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, vmscan: prevent kswapd sleeping prematurely due to mismatched classzone_idx 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. 2017-04-08 10:57:55 -07:00
mempool.c
memtest.c
migrate.c mm: make rmap_one boolean function 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove shmem_mapping() shmem_zero_setup() duplicates 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
mlock.c mm: make try_to_munlock() return void 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm/mmap: replace SHM_HUGE_MASK with MAP_HUGE_MASK inside mmap_pgoff 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
mmu_context.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
mmzone.c mm/mmzone.c: swap likely to unlikely as code logic is different for next_zones_zonelist() 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
mprotect.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mremap.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
oom_kill.c oom: improve oom disable handling 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcg 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm, page_alloc: remove debug_guardpage_minorder() test in warn_alloc() 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: make rmap_one boolean function 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c mm: use is_migrate_isolate_page() to simplify the code 2017-05-03 15:52:08 -07:00
page_owner.c
page_poison.c mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm: fix page_vma_mapped_walk() for ksm pages 2017-04-08 00:47:48 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c percpu: remove unused chunk_alloc parameter from pcpu_get_pages() 2017-03-06 15:56:55 -05:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'sched/core' into locking/core 2017-04-04 11:31:12 +02:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
process_vm_access.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcg 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
rodata_test.c mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
slab.c slab: avoid IPIs when creating kmem caches 2017-05-03 15:52:07 -07:00
slab.h slab: remove synchronous synchronize_sched() from memcg cache deactivation path 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
slab_common.c kasan: drain quarantine of memcg slab objects 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
slob.c slab: introduce __kmemcg_cache_deactivate() 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
slub.c slub: make sysfs directories for memcg sub-caches optional 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm/sparse: refine usemap_size() a little 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
swap.c mm: move MADV_FREE pages into LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list 2017-05-03 15:52:08 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm, swap_cgroup: reschedule when neeed in swap_cgroup_swapoff() 2017-04-08 00:47:49 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap_slots.c: add warning if swap slots cache failed to initialize 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
swap_state.c mm, swap: fix comment in __read_swap_cache_async 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
swapfile.c mm, swap: avoid lock swap_avail_lock when held cluster lock 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
truncate.c fs: add i_blocksize() 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check 2017-04-05 12:30:18 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
util.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
vmacache.c sched/headers: Prepare to move 'init_task' and 'init_thread_union' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
vmalloc.c A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a new 2017-05-02 10:21:17 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
vmscan.c mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcg 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
vmstat.c mm, vmstat: suppress pcp stats for unpopulated zones in zoneinfo 2017-05-03 15:52:08 -07:00
workingset.c mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcg 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix page locking in z3fold_alloc() 2017-04-13 18:24:20 -07:00
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: expand class bit 2017-04-13 18:24:21 -07:00
zswap.c zswap: don't param_set_charp while holding spinlock 2017-02-27 18:43:45 -08:00