Re: [PATCH] oom: add sysctl to enable slab memory dump

[Pekka Enberg]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I like how slub handles this when it can't allocate more slab with
> slab_out_of_memory() and has the added benefit of still warning even with
> __GFP_NORETRY that the oom killer is never called for.  If there's really
> a slab leak happening, there's a good chance that this diagnostic
> information is going to be emitted by the offending cache at some point in
> time if you're using slub.  This could easily be extended to slab.c, so
> it's even more reason not to include this type of information in the oom
> killer.

Works for me. Rafael?
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