From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, wsd_upstream@mediatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_owner: use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:15:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181030081537.GV32673@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1540882551.23278.12.camel@mtkswgap22>
On Tue 30-10-18 14:55:51, Miles Chen wrote:
[...]
> It's a real problem when using page_owner.
> I found this issue recently: I'm not able to read page_owner information
> during a overnight test. (error: read failed: Out of memory). I replace
> kmalloc() with vmalloc() and it worked well.
Is this with trimming the allocation to a single page and doing shorter
than requested reads?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-30 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-29 5:16 miles.chen
2018-10-29 8:07 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-29 8:17 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-30 1:29 ` Miles Chen
2018-10-30 6:06 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-30 6:55 ` Miles Chen
2018-10-30 8:15 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-10-31 8:47 ` Miles Chen
2018-10-31 10:15 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-31 10:19 ` Miles Chen
2018-10-31 11:41 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-01 10:00 ` Miles Chen
2018-11-01 10:27 ` Michal Hocko
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