Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 2009 10:17:15 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Warn when we run out of swap space (was Re: Misleading OOM messages) |
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Subject: Warn if we run out of swap space
Running out of swap space means that the evicton of anonymous pages may no longer be possible which can lead to OOM conditions.
Print a warning when swap space first becomes exhausted.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
--- mm/swapfile.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Index: linux-2.6/mm/swapfile.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/swapfile.c 2009-05-22 09:07:40.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/swapfile.c 2009-05-22 09:15:59.000000000 -0500 @@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ swp_entry_t get_swap_page(void) nr_swap_pages++; noswap: spin_unlock(&swap_lock); + WARN_ONCE(1, "All of swap is in use. Some pages cannot be swapped out."); return (swp_entry_t) {0}; }
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