Re: [PATCH v1] kernel/trace:check the val against the available mem

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:27:49 +0200
Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I understand you don't want GFP_NORETRY.  But why is it more important for
> > this allocation to succeed than other normal GFP_KERNEL allocations?  
> 
> I guess they simply want a failure rather than OOM even when they can
> shoot themselves into head by using oom_origin. It is still quite ugly
> to see OOM report...

Exactly!

-- Steve