linux-kernel - Re: Other alloc/OOM message question

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Message-ID: <20130209004644.GC31290@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Feb 2013 16:46:44 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Other alloc/OOM message question

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:29:59PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 17:45 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> > Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:46:27 -0800
> > > alloc failures already get standardized OOM
> > > messages and a dump_stack.
> 
> Does anyone know if all the other alloc's like
> dma_alloc_coherent, dma_alloc_noncoherent,
> pci_alloc_consistent always produce OOM messages
> via page_alloc/warn_alloc_failed for all arches?

If not, they should, to allow this type of cleanups.

thanks,

greg k-h
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