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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 2ad0ac8c3f32..8e2f2cd821f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1387,6 +1387,8 @@ extern void si_meminfo(struct sysinfo * val);
 extern void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid);
 extern int after_bootmem;
 
+extern void warn_alloc_failed(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, const char *fmt, ...);
+
 extern void setup_per_cpu_pageset(void);
 
 extern void zone_pcp_update(struct zone *zone);