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When profile= is used, a large buffer is allocated early at boot.  This
can be larger than what the page allocator can provide so it prints a
warning.  However, the caller is able to handle the situation so this
patch suppresses the warning.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 30, 2009
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions kernel/profile.c
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Expand Up @@ -117,11 +117,12 @@ int __ref profile_init(void)

cpumask_copy(prof_cpu_mask, cpu_possible_mask);

prof_buffer = kzalloc(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
prof_buffer = kzalloc(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN);
if (prof_buffer)
return 0;

prof_buffer = alloc_pages_exact(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO);
prof_buffer = alloc_pages_exact(buffer_bytes,
GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOWARN);
if (prof_buffer)
return 0;

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