Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/base: Remove unnecessary OOM message

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Feb 06 2015 - 16:17:16 EST


On Fri 2015-02-06 13:04:30, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 21:58 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Fri 2015-02-06 16:39:12, Quentin Lambert wrote:
> > > This patch fix checkpatch warnings concerning the possible
> > > duplication of an "out of memory" message.
> >
> > So, instead of nice and readable "not enough memory for clock..." we
> > get OOM, stackdump, and backtrace...? Not sure it is improvement.
>
> All allocs without __GFP_NOWARN already gets an OOM and stackdump.
> These are just unnecessary.

"These" being human readable messages or ugly stackdumps?

Read what I have said. Figuring out what allocation failed from
unreliable backtrace is not fun.
Pavel
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