Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Reduce verbosity when memory allocation fails

David Rientjes
2011-01-11T21:34:41Z

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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>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>