Re: + mm-show_mem-suppress-page-counts-in-non-blockable-contexts.patchadded to -mm tree

[David Rientjes]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Michal Hocko wrote:

> I have already asked about it in the original thread but didn't get any
> answer. How can we get a soft lockup when all implementations of show_mem
> call touch_nmi_watchdog?
> 

Feel free to do s/soft lockups/irqs being disabled for an extremely long 
time/.

> I do agree with the change but the above justification seems misleading.
> Can we just remove the information because it is costly and doesn't give
> us anything relevant to debug allocation failures?
> 

I believe I have already said yes, that all pertinent information is 
already there and I do not believe this additional information 
continuously spewed to the kernel log is helpful in debugging VM issues or 
understanding why the oom condition exists.
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