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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>, lkm <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Patch failed
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 00:42:38 -0300 (BRT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102260029300.4659-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102250848340.2015-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>



On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> The way sg_low_malloc() tries to allocate, failure messages are
> pretty much garanteed.  It tries high order allocations (which
> are unreliable even when not stressed) and backs off until it
> succeeds.
> 
> In other words, the messages are a red herring.

Yup. And they should not be printed. 

We can add an allocation flag (__GFP_NO_CRITICAL?) which can be used by
sg_low_malloc() (and other non critical allocations) to fail previously
and not print the message. 

Linus ? 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-26  5:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102250725180.1864-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
2001-02-25  6:35 ` [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Patch failed Shawn Starr
2001-02-25  8:03   ` Mike Galbraith
2001-02-25 23:13     ` Shawn Starr
2001-02-26  3:42     ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2001-02-26  9:26       ` Alan Cox
2001-02-26 10:24         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-27  2:19           ` [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Causes more then just msgs Shawn Starr
2001-02-27 10:08             ` Mike Galbraith
2001-02-27 21:52               ` Shawn Starr
2001-02-28  5:25                 ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102231409010.496-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
2001-02-23 21:11 ` [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed & mount hanging withloop device issues Shawn Starr
2001-02-24  2:18   ` [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Patch failed Shawn Starr
2001-02-24 16:01     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-24 22:31       ` Shawn Starr
2001-02-24 21:43         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-02-25  5:36     ` Mike Galbraith

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