mm: break out page allocation warning code
authorDave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 25 May 2011 00:12:16 +0000 (17:12 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 25 May 2011 15:39:21 +0000 (08:39 -0700)
commita238ab5b0239575c179f4976064192c3f7409dad
treebed3d186bee49318e1984eeac489a614ad6acb1b
parentde03c72cfce5b263a674d04348b58475ec50163c
mm: break out page allocation warning code

This originally started as a simple patch to give vmalloc() some more
verbose output on failure on top of the plain page allocator messages.
Johannes suggested that it might be nicer to lead with the vmalloc() info
_before_ the page allocator messages.

But, I do think there's a lot of value in what __alloc_pages_slowpath()
does with its filtering and so forth.

This patch creates a new function which other allocators can call instead
of relying on the internal page allocator warnings.  It also gives this
function private rate-limiting which separates it from other
printk_ratelimit() users.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
mm/page_alloc.c