On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Michal Hocko wrote: > I have already asked about it in the original thread but didn't get any > answer. How can we get a soft lockup when all implementations of show_mem > call touch_nmi_watchdog? > Feel free to do s/soft lockups/irqs being disabled for an extremely long time/. > I do agree with the change but the above justification seems misleading. > Can we just remove the information because it is costly and doesn't give > us anything relevant to debug allocation failures? > I believe I have already said yes, that all pertinent information is already there and I do not believe this additional information continuously spewed to the kernel log is helpful in debugging VM issues or understanding why the oom condition exists. -- 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>