From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx113.postini.com [74.125.245.113]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 451496B0044 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:52:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:52:19 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, slob: Prevent false positive trace upon allocation failure In-Reply-To: <1344955130-29478-1-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com> Message-ID: <00000139259ef8c5-2712ec60-9b7f-4d5c-955a-e38da1772402-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1344955130-29478-1-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ezequiel Garcia Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg , Glauber Costa On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > This patch changes the __kmalloc_node() logic to return NULL > if alloc_pages() fails to return valid pages. > This is done to avoid to trace a false positive kmalloc event. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org