linux-kernel - Re: decode GFP flags in oom killer output.

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Date:	Wed, 7 Mar 2012 15:53:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: decode GFP flags in oom killer output.

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Dave Jones wrote:

> Decoding these flags by hand in oom reports is tedious,
> and error-prone.
> 

Something like this is already done in include/trace/events/gfpflags.h so 
there should be a generic version of this or something you can already 
use.

The problem here is that you have to allocate an additional 80-bytes for 
the string and the oom killer is notorious for being called deep in the 
stack and you can't statically allocate a string buffer without adding 
additional syncronization.
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