Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20

[Andrew Morton]

Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
> 
> ...
>  We should probably rate limit that printk. Andrew: I was thinking of
>  stealing net_ratelimit and calling it core_ratelimit or whatever. Then
>  wrap these non critical things with it. Overkill?

Actually my intent was just to remove it (and __GFP_NOWARN) - it's just
development-time debug.  But it is handy on occasion.

So sure, ratelimit it, make it KERN_INFO and maybe add a dump_stack()?

(printk_ratelimit() may be a suitable name)
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