Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:04:56 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Remove unnecessary / duplicate OOM printks |
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:47:23 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> There are many thousands of printks for OOM conditions > in kernel sources. > > These are almost always a duplication of a generic > OOM message from the mm subsystem. > > The biggest difference between the generic OOM and > the specific OOM uses is that most of the specific > messages are emitted at KERN_ERR but the generic > message is at KERN_WARNING. > > Many KB of code/text could be removed from the kernel. > > Removal can be gradual and done by subsystem. > > Some kmalloc's that are followed on failure by vmalloc > may need to add GFP_NOWARN. > > Does anyone really believe the per site failure > messages are useful or really want them to keep them? >
Kill 'em.
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