On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:26:52AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:46:15PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 03:41:22PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 03:28:03PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:29:07PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > > > > From: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > Print a warning when all allocation tries have been failed > > > > > and the function is about to return NULL. This prepares for > > > > > calling the function with __GFP_NOWARN to suppress > > > > > allocation failure warnings before all fall-backs have > > > > > failed. > > > > > > > > This can be quite noisy. Especially the dump-stack. > > > > > > Well, this is as noisy as the dump_stack()s from the page-allocator when > > > the first allocation try fails. The goal of the first two patches in > > > > Right, on the first allocation. Subsequent allocations won't be so noisy > > in the page-allocator (I think?). > > >From the code in mm/page_alloc.c (function warn_alloc_failed) it doesn't > look like a one-time warning. The dmesg I have seen from a failing > kernel also shows a lot of these messages. > > So having the warning at the end of swiotlb_alloc_coherent won't be any > more noisy than the (removed) warnings from the page allocator.
OK, then Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> > > > Joerg > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

