It was observed that if order is passed as more than MAX_ORDER
allocation in __alloc_pages_nodemask, it will unnecessarily go to
slowpath and then return failure.
Since we know that more than MAX_ORDER will anyways fail, we can
avoid slowpath by returning failure in nodemask itself.
Signed-off-by: Pintu Kumar <pint...@samsung.com>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 202ab58..6d38e75 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1564,6 +1564,10 @@ __setup("fail_page_alloc=", setup_fail_page_alloc);
static bool should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
+ if (order >= MAX_ORDER) {
+ WARN_ON(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN));
+ return false;
+ }
if (order < fail_page_alloc.min_order)
return false;
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
--
1.7.9.5
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