From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: dvyukov@google.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: document kmemleak's non-blockable __GFP_NOFAIL case
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:17:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190715131732.GX29483@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1562964544-59519-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
On Sat 13-07-19 04:49:04, Yang Shi wrote:
> When running ltp's oom test with kmemleak enabled, the below warning was
> triggerred since kernel detects __GFP_NOFAIL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is
> passed in:
kmemleak is broken and this is a long term issue. I thought that
Catalin had something to address this.
While this patch only adds a comment and discourages future changes of
the warning which is fine and probably something that we should do,
kmemleak really should be fixed sooner than later.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-15 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-12 20:49 [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: document kmemleak's non-blockable __GFP_NOFAIL case Yang Shi
2019-07-13 19:39 ` David Rientjes
2019-07-15 3:43 ` Yang Shi
2019-07-15 13:18 ` Michal Hocko
2019-07-13 21:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-15 3:47 ` Yang Shi
2019-07-15 13:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-15 17:00 ` Yang Shi
2019-07-15 13:17 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-07-15 15:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-07-15 15:18 ` Qian Cai
2019-07-15 16:58 ` Yang Shi
2019-07-16 17:38 ` Yang Shi
2019-07-25 2:48 ` Andrew Morton
2019-07-25 17:21 ` Yang Shi
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