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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: SLAB Out-of-memory diagnostics
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:26:07PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rafael Aquini wrote:
>
> > Following the example at mm/slub.c, add out-of-memory diagnostics to the SLAB
> > allocator to help on debugging OOM conditions. This patch also adds a new
> > sysctl, 'oom_dump_slabs_forced', that overrides the effect of __GFP_NOWARN page
> > allocation flag and forces the kernel to report every slab allocation failure.
> >
> > An example print out looks like this:
> >
> > <snip page allocator out-of-memory message>
> > SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node 0 (gfp=0x11200)
> > cache: bio-0, object size: 192, order: 0
> > node0: slabs: 3/3, objs: 60/60, free: 0
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
>
> I like it, except for the addition of the sysctl. __GFP_NOWARN is used
> for a reason, usually because whatever is allocating memory can gracefully
> handle a failure and should not be emitted to the kernel log under any
> circumstances.

Ok, I'll drop the sysctl part then. Pekka?

David, once again, thanks for your feedback!

Rafael


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