On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 11:08 -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> writes: > > On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >> Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > This patch reduces the kernel size by removing error messages that duplicate > >> > the normal OOM message. > >> > A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as > >> > follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr) > >> This patch removes useful warnings about what allocation failed. The > >> messages removed are NOT duplicate! > > Is it really the case that the information can't be reconstructed from the > > information generated by kmalloc on failure? To my understanding there is > > a stack trace, and from scanning through the changes I see only one change > > per function, so perhaps the stack trace already makes it clear where the > > problem occurred? > It may be possible to backtrack, but this change just makes it harder. > There are tons of real issues to fix in this driver, this patch just > increases the risk of patch conflicts for no real gain. Making the allocation less likely to fail for low memory systems is a gain. The allocation failures themselves are low likelihood events. Determining which specific memory allocation failure occurred has near nil value. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
