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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v1] kernel/trace:check the val against the available mem
    On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:27:49 +0200
    Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:

    > > I understand you don't want GFP_NORETRY. But why is it more important for
    > > this allocation to succeed than other normal GFP_KERNEL allocations?
    >
    > I guess they simply want a failure rather than OOM even when they can
    > shoot themselves into head by using oom_origin. It is still quite ugly
    > to see OOM report...

    Exactly!

    -- Steve

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