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

[Pekka Enberg]

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@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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@xxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Toralf FÃrster<toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Pekka Enberg<penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Rientjes<rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ted Ts'o<tytso@xxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes<rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
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