Hi Joonso, On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:09 PM, JoonSoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2012/9/6 Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@xxxxxxxxx>: >> This patch cleans how we trace kmalloc and kmem_cache_alloc. >> In particular, it fixes out-of-memory tracing: now every failed >> allocation will trace reporting non-zero requested bytes, zero obtained bytes. > > Other SLAB allocators(slab, slub) doesn't consider zero obtained bytes > in tracing. > These just return "addr = 0, obtained size = cache size" > Why does the slob print a different output? > I plan to fix slab, slub in a future patchset. I think it would be nice to have a trace event reporting this event. But, perhaps it's not worth it. I'd love to hear what others think about this. Thanks, Ezequiel. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>