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Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/24] sctp: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages
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=46rom: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:51:21 +0200

> Le lundi 29 ao=FBt 2011 =E0 23:43 +0200, Eric Dumazet a =E9crit :
>=20
>> Furthermore, a failed vmalloc() is not guaranteed to emit an OOM
>> message, is it ?
>=20
> It currently displays a message without context :
>=20
> vmap allocation for size XXXXXX failed: use vmalloc=3D<size> to incre=
ase
> size.
>=20
> So we dont know which part of the kernel asked this allocation.
>=20
> Please dont remove existing error messages after failed vmalloc() cal=
ls.

Indeed.

Joe, these vmalloc() and also the __GFP_NOWARN cases will need to be
attended to and this series resubmitted as such.

Thanks.