Re: [patch] mm, oom: stop reclaiming if GFP_ATOMIC will start failing soon

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Tue Apr 28 2020 - 19:37:48 EST


On 2020/04/29 6:48, David Rientjes wrote:
> Somewhat related to what I described in the changelog: we lost the "page
> allocation stalls" artifacts in the kernel log for 4.15. The commit
> description references an asynchronous mechanism for getting this
> information; I don't know where this mechanism currently lives.

The asynchronous mechanism I meant in that commit is
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9c87635-6e00-5ce7-b05a-966011c8fe3f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .
We are still forced to live in a world where we cannot get a clue for stalled allocations. :-(