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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>,
	minchan@kernel.org, ngupta@vflare.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, s.suk@samsung.com,
	jaewon31.kim@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram_drv: add __GFP_NOWARN flag on call to zs_malloc
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:41:43 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkQXx+pLr6FxY1XZ@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YkQPefdRc+hxIXEV@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On (22/03/30 10:06), Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 30-03-22 14:25:02, Jaewon Kim wrote:
> > The page allocation with GFP_NOIO may fail. And zram can handle this
> > allocation failure. We do not need to print log for this.
> 
> GFP_NOIO doesn't have any special meaning wrt to failures. zram
> allocates from the memory reclaim context which is a bad design IMHO.

Agreed.

> Is the memory allocation failure gracefully recoverable?

No, it's not. I agree that we want to see that allocation warning
in the logs.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-30  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20220330052214epcas1p250cff6b3168a1c9c253e1fe70e68ca8b@epcas1p2.samsung.com>
2022-03-30  5:25 ` Jaewon Kim
2022-03-30  8:06   ` Michal Hocko
2022-03-30  8:41     ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2022-03-30  8:49     ` Michal Hocko
2022-03-30  9:11       ` Jaewon Kim

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