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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm: cma: introduce gfp flag in cma_alloc instead of no_warn
On Thu 21-01-21 09:54:59, Minchan Kim wrote:
> The upcoming patch will introduce __GFP_NORETRY semantic
> in alloc_contig_range which is a failfast mode of the API.
> Instead of adding a additional parameter for gfp, replace
> no_warn with gfp flag.
>
> To keep old behaviors, it follows the rule below.
>
> no_warn gfp_flags
>
> false GFP_KERNEL
> true GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN
> gfp & __GFP_NOWARN GFP_KERNEL | (gfp & __GFP_NOWARN)
>
> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index 0ba69cd16aeb..d50627686fec 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -419,13 +419,13 @@ static inline void cma_debug_show_areas(struct cma *cma) { }
> * @cma: Contiguous memory region for which the allocation is performed.
> * @count: Requested number of pages.
> * @align: Requested alignment of pages (in PAGE_SIZE order).
> - * @no_warn: Avoid printing message about failed allocation
> + * @gfp_mask: GFP mask to use during the cma allocation.

Call out supported gfp flags explicitly. Have a look at kvmalloc_node
for a guidance.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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