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

[Andrew Morton]

Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> 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'?
> 

Yup, that would make more sense.

Or __GFP_I_DONT_REALLY_CARE ;)

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