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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/10] suppress allocation warnings for radix-tree allocations
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 23:51:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E174TuG-0004As-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CD59BAD.37BD6A51@zip.com.au>

On Sunday 05 May 2002 22:53, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The recently-added page allocation failure warning generates a lot of
> noise due to radix-tree node allocation failures.  Those messages are
> not interesting.
> 
> But I think the warning is otherwise useful - "I got an allocation
> failure and then it crashed" is better than "it crashed".
> 
> The patch suppresses the message for ratnode allocation failures.
> 
> =====================================
> 
> --- 2.5.13/mm/vmscan.c~radix-tree-warning	Sun May  5 13:31:59 2002
> +++ 2.5.13-akpm/mm/vmscan.c	Sun May  5 13:31:59 2002
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ swap_out_add_to_swap_cache(struct page *
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
> +	current->flags |= PF_RADIX_TREE;


Isn't that really 'PF_NO_WARN_ALLOC'?

-- 
Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-05 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-05 20:53 [patch 1/10] suppress allocation warnings for radix-tree allocations Andrew Morton
2002-05-05 21:51 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-05-05 22:06   ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-05 22:51     ` Anton Altaparmakov

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