Re: next: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1200 at mm/page_alloc.c:4744 __alloc_pages+0x2e8/0x3a0

[Dan Carpenter]

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 01:56:30PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
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> > On May 12, 2023, at 6:32 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure Chuck Lever did this intentionally, but he's not on the
> > CC list.  Let's add him.
> > 
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> > 
> > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 06:15:04PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> >> Following kernel warning has been noticed on qemu-arm64 while running kunit
> >> tests while booting Linux 6.4.0-rc1-next-20230512 and It was started from
> >> 6.3.0-rc7-next-20230420.
> >> 
> >> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> 
> >> This is always reproducible on qemu-arm64, qemu-arm, qemu-x86 and qemu-i386.
> >> Is this expected warning as a part of kunit tests ?
> 
> Dan's correct, this Kunit test is supposed to check the
> behavior of the API when a too-large privsize is specified.
> 
> I'm not sure how to make this work without the superfluous
> warning. Would adding GFP_NOWARN to the allocation help?

That would silence the splat, yes.

regards,
dan carpenter