netdev - Re: [PATCH 18/24] sctp: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages

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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:51:21 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/24] sctp: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages

Le lundi 29 août 2011 à 23:43 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> Furthermore, a failed vmalloc() is not guaranteed to emit an OOM
> message, is it ?

It currently displays a message without context :

vmap allocation for size XXXXXX failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase
size.

So we dont know which part of the kernel asked this allocation.

Please dont remove existing error messages after failed vmalloc() calls.



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