Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: unify checks in alloc_pages_node() and __alloc_pages_node()

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 06:34:30PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Perform the same debug checks in alloc_pages_node() as are done in
> __alloc_pages_node(), by making the former function a wrapper of the latter
> one.
> 
> In addition to better diagnostics in DEBUG_VM builds for situations which
> have been already fatal (e.g. out-of-bounds node id), there are two visible
> changes for potential existing buggy callers of alloc_pages_node():
> 
> - calling alloc_pages_node() with any negative nid (e.g. due to arithmetic
>   overflow) was treated as passing NUMA_NO_NODE and fallback to local node was
>   applied. This will now be fatal.
> - calling alloc_pages_node() with an offline node will now be checked for
>   DEBUG_VM builds. Since it's not fatal if the node has been previously online,
>   and this patch may expose some existing buggy callers, change the VM_BUG_ON
>   in __alloc_pages_node() to VM_WARN_ON.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>