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

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 23:06 05/05/02, Andrew Morton wrote:
>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 ;)

Surely this is only a temporary flag which together with the warning 
message will disappear later on so debating about its name is, err, silly? 
(((-;

Anton