Re: [patch 1/10] suppress allocation warnings for radix-tree allocations

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Sun, 5 May 2002 23:51:00 +0200


On Sunday 05 May 2002 22:53, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The recently-added page allocation failure warning generates a lot of
> noise due to radix-tree node allocation failures. Those messages are
> not interesting.
>
> But I think the warning is otherwise useful - "I got an allocation
> failure and then it crashed" is better than "it crashed".
>
> The patch suppresses the message for ratnode allocation failures.
>
> =====================================
>
> --- 2.5.13/mm/vmscan.c~radix-tree-warning Sun May 5 13:31:59 2002
> +++ 2.5.13-akpm/mm/vmscan.c Sun May 5 13:31:59 2002
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ swap_out_add_to_swap_cache(struct page *
> int ret;
>
> current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
> + current->flags |= PF_RADIX_TREE;

Isn't that really 'PF_NO_WARN_ALLOC'?

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Daniel
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