page allocator: do not sanity check order in the fast path

No user of the allocator API should be passing in an order >= MAX_ORDER
but we check for it on each and every allocation.  Delete this check and
make it a VM_BUG_ON check further down the call path.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/VM_BUG_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE/]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 549ec5583103..c2d3fe03b5d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -185,9 +185,6 @@ __alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                                                 unsigned int order)
 {
-        if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER))
-                return NULL;
-
         /* Unknown node is current node */
         if (nid < 0)
                 nid = numa_node_id();
@@ -201,9 +198,6 @@ extern struct page *alloc_pages_current(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order);
 static inline struct page *
 alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 {
-        if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER))
-                return NULL;
-
         return alloc_pages_current(gfp_mask, order);
 }
 extern struct page *alloc_page_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask,