qubes-linux-kernel/patches.fixes/oom-warning
2011-04-19 22:09:59 +02:00

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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Tell the end user they should not worry about GFP_ATOMIC failures
Patch-mainline: no
References: SUSE48965
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Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2087,7 +2087,13 @@ rebalance:
nopage:
if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) && printk_ratelimit()) {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: page allocation failure."
+ if (!wait) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "The following is only an harmless informational message.\n");
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Unless you get a _continuous_flood_ of these messages it means\n");
+ printk(KERN_INFO "everything is working fine. Allocations from irqs cannot be\n");
+ printk(KERN_INFO "perfectly reliable and the kernel is designed to handle that.\n");
+ }
+ printk(KERN_INFO "%s: page allocation failure."
" order:%d, mode:0x%x\n",
current->comm, order, gfp_mask);
dump_stack();