Hi Michael,
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 04:25:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Ohh, scratch that. The patch is bogus. I have completely missed that
> vmemmap_populate_hugepages already falls back to
> vmemmap_populate_basepages. I have to revisit the bug report I have
> received to see what happened apart from the allocation warning. Maybe
> we just want to silent that warning.
Yep, this should be fixed in 8e2cdbcb86b0 ("x86-64: fall back to
regular page vmemmap on allocation failure").
I figure it's good to keep some sort of warning there, though, as it
could have performance implications when we fall back to base pages.
