[merged mm-stable] mm-vmalloc-add-alignment-info-in-warning-print-as-possible-failure-reason.patch removed from -mm tree

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:43:09 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.mm-commits
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/vmalloc: add alignment info in warning print as possible failure reason
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-vmalloc-add-alignment-info-in-warning-print-as-possible-failure-reason.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Feng Tang <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/vmalloc: add alignment info in warning print as possible failure reason
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 19:26:10 +0800

When running 'fix_align_alloc_test' case of test_vmalloc module with
command:
    insmod ./test_vmalloc.ko run_test_mask=64

It will fail, which is the expected result, as the case increment
the alignment parameter gradually to 64bit limit. And the dmesg has
warning msg:
    "vmalloc_test/0: vmalloc error: size 4096, vm_struct allocation failed, mode:0xdc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0"

It doesn't give the alignment info, which is the real reason for the
failure (not the 'size').

Add alignment info to the warning print to give the necessary hint
for possible failure reason, and the message will be:
    "vmalloc_test/0: vmalloc error: size 4096, align 0x800000000000, vm_struct allocation failed, mode:0xdc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/vmalloc.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-add-alignment-info-in-warning-print-as-possible-failure-reason
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -4045,8 +4045,8 @@ again:
 	if (!area) {
 		bool nofail = gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL;
 		warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
-			"vmalloc error: size %lu, vm_struct allocation failed%s",
-			size, (nofail) ? ". Retrying." : "");
+			"vmalloc error: size %lu, align 0x%lx, vm_struct allocation failed%s",
+			size, align, (nofail) ? ". Retrying." : "");
 		if (nofail) {
 			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
 			goto again;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are