linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/platforms/cell: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in three functions

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Message-ID: <1507255353.4434.54.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:02:33 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@...e.de>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/platforms/cell: Delete an error message for
 a failed memory allocation in three functions

On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 22:29 +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> I do not expect the kernel to generate a
> stack trace every time memory allocation fails. With all the hooks in
> the code it is hard to tell, though.

All [kv].alloc failures without __GFP_NOWARN call dump_stack()