Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Reduce verbosity when memory allocationfails

[David Rientjes]

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>