Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:34:29 -0800 (PST) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Reduce verbosity when memory allocation fails |
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> kmemleak: Allow kmemleak metadata allocations to fail > > From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > > This patch adds __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOMEMALLOC flags to the kmemleak > metadata allocations so that it has a smaller effect on the users of the > kernel slab allocator. Since kmemleak allocations can now fail more > often, this patch also reduces the verbosity by passing __GFP_NOWARN and > not dumping the stack trace when a kmemleak allocation fails. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> > Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> > Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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