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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kyeongdon Kim <kyeongdon.kim@lge.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	ngupta@vflare.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com, sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] zram: Prevent page allocation failure during zcomp_strm_alloc
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:13:40 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151123081340.GE7449@swordfish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151123074337.GD7449@swordfish>

On (11/23/15 16:43), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
[..]
> agree. we also would want to switch from vzalloc() to
> 	__vmalloc_node_flags(size, NUMA_NO_NODE,
> 			GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM |  __GFP_ZERO)

[..]
> > So, Kyeongdon's patch will remove warning overhead and likely to
> > make zcomp_stram_alloc successful with vmalloc so I want to
> > roll it out first. And let's add a WARN_ON_ONCE to detect of
> > failure and rethink it when we receive such report.

hm... for k{z,m}alloc() it does reduce the warning overhead, but not
for vmalloc() -> warn_alloc_failed() [in theory]. So I guess, I'll
change vmalloc() to

	__vmalloc(XXX,
		GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO,
		PAGE_KERNEL);

/* passing __GFP_NOWARN */.

	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-23  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-23  4:18 [PATCH v2] zram: Prevent page allocation failure during zcomp_strm_alloc Minchan Kim
2015-11-23  7:43 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-11-23  8:13   ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-11-20 10:02 Kyeongdon Kim
2015-11-21  2:10 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-11-21  2:15   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-11-21  9:37     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-11-23  2:15 ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-23  3:14   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-11-23  3:35     ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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