On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Michal Hocko wrote: > But we are trying to prevent from soft lockups by calling > touch_nmi_watchdog every now when iterating over pages so the lock up > detector shouldn't trigger. > > Anyway, I think that the additional information (which can be really > costly as you are describing) is not that useful. Most of the useful > information is already printed by show_free_areas. Or does it help when > we know how much memory is shared/reserved/etc. when the allocation > fails? > I do not think it is helpful since show_free_areas() already shows all pertinent information, and hence I'm suppressing it in atomic contexts in this patch. > So I do agree with the dropping the additional information for the > allocation failure path (sysrq+m might still show it) but I fail to see > how the lockup detector plays any role here. Can we just drop it because > it is not that interesting and it is costly so it is not worth > bothering? > I would agree it is not interesting to debugging VM issues and is obviously very expensive. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
