From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: aryabinin@virtuozzo.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
mhocko@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: don't warn when vmalloc() fails due to a fatal signal
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:55:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170313115504.7qyyoxwycqnfh5yr@node.shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170313114425.72724-1-dvyukov@google.com>
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> When vmalloc() fails it prints a very lengthy message with all the
> details about memory consumption assuming that it happened due to OOM.
> However, vmalloc() can also fail due to fatal signal pending.
> In such case the message is quite confusing because it suggests that
> it is OOM but the numbers suggest otherwise. The messages can also
> pollute console considerably.
>
> Don't warn when vmalloc() fails due to fatal signal pending.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-13 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-13 11:44 Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-13 11:55 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2017-03-13 11:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-03-13 12:03 ` Michal Hocko
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