mm, show_mem: suppress page counts in non-blockable contexts
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:06:11 +0000 (15:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:54:28 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
On large systems with a lot of memory, walking all RAM to determine page
types may take a half second or even more.

In non-blockable contexts, the page allocator will emit a page allocation
failure warning unless __GFP_NOWARN is specified.  In such contexts, irqs
are typically disabled and such a lengthy delay may even result in NMI
watchdog timeouts.

To fix this, suppress the page walk in such contexts when printing the
page allocation failure warning.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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