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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2009-06-17 00:31:53 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-17 04:47:32 +0200
commitb3c466ce512923298ae8c0121d3e9f397a3f1210 (patch)
treeca6f360a6dbaaa0a71b9375fb57d544364532254
parentpage allocator: replace __alloc_pages_internal() with __alloc_pages_nodemask() (diff)
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page allocator: do not sanity check order in the fast path
No user of the allocator API should be passing in an order >= MAX_ORDER but we check for it on each and every allocation. Delete this check and make it a VM_BUG_ON check further down the call path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/VM_BUG_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE/] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/gfp.h6
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 549ec5583103..c2d3fe03b5d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -185,9 +185,6 @@ __alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int order)
{
- if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER))
- return NULL;
-
/* Unknown node is current node */
if (nid < 0)
nid = numa_node_id();
@@ -201,9 +198,6 @@ extern struct page *alloc_pages_current(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order);
static inline struct page *
alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
- if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER))
- return NULL;
-
return alloc_pages_current(gfp_mask, order);
}
extern struct page *alloc_page_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask,
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d58df9031503..bfbd95c0610f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1401,6 +1401,9 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned int order,
classzone_idx = zone_idx(preferred_zone);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order >= MAX_ORDER))
+ return NULL;
+
zonelist_scan:
/*
* Scan zonelist, looking for a zone with enough free.