[PATCH] slab: remove GFP_THISNODE clearing from alloc_slabmgmt()

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Nov 24 2008 - 17:33:28 EST


Commit 6cb062296f73e74768cca2f3eaf90deac54de02d ("Categorize GFP flags")
left one call-site in alloc_slabmgmt() to clear GFP_THISNODE instead of
GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK. Unfortunately, that ends up clearing __GFP_NOWARN
and __GFP_NORETRY as well which is not what we want. As the only caller
of alloc_slabmgmt() already clears GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK before passing
local_flags to it, we can just remove the clearing of GFP_THISNODE.

This patch should fix spurious page allocation failure warnings on the
mempool_alloc() path. See the following URL for an example:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/27/100

Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 918f04f..98d3024 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2608,7 +2608,7 @@ static struct slab *alloc_slabmgmt(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp,
if (OFF_SLAB(cachep)) {
/* Slab management obj is off-slab. */
slabp = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cachep->slabp_cache,
- local_flags & ~GFP_THISNODE, nodeid);
+ local_flags, nodeid);
if (!slabp)
return NULL;
} else {
--
1.5.6.4

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