From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f172.google.com (mail-pf0-f172.google.com [209.85.192.172]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251CA6B0009 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 17:41:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pf0-f172.google.com with SMTP id w128so76235165pfb.2 for ; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-pa0-x229.google.com (mail-pa0-x229.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400e:c03::229]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x80si7371040pfi.97.2016.03.01.14.41.43 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:41:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pa0-x229.google.com with SMTP id fl4so119997752pad.0 for ; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:41:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:41:39 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH mmotm] mm, sl[au]b: print gfp_flags as strings in slab_out_of_memory() In-Reply-To: <1456859312-26207-1-git-send-email-vbabka@suse.cz> Message-ID: References: <1456859312-26207-1-git-send-email-vbabka@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Joonsoo Kim On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > We can now print gfp_flags more human-readable. Make use of this in > slab_out_of_memory() for SLUB and SLAB. Also convert the SLAB variant it to > pr_warn() along the way. > > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka > Cc: Christoph Lameter > Cc: Pekka Enberg > Cc: David Rientjes > Cc: Joonsoo Kim Acked-by: David Rientjes Although I've always been curious about the usefulness of these out of memory calls in the first place. They are obviously for debugging, but have they actually helped to diagnose anything? -- 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