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

Pekka Enberg
2011-01-12T06:59:31Z

On 1/11/11 11:34 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>