Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:34:21 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1] kernel/trace:check the val against the available mem |
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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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