linux-kernel - Re: USB: hub: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in usb_hub_clear_tt

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Message-ID: <9c32b2f1-a4d2-a079-f93c-ef6efe909449@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 14:38:19 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>,
        Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@...nix.com>,
        Eugene Korenevsky <ekorenevsky@...il.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Günter Röck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>,
        Peter Chen <peter.chen@....com>
Subject: Re: USB: hub: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation
 in usb_hub_clear_tt_buffer()

>>>> OOM does a dump_stack() so this function's call tree is shown.
>>>
>>> A call stack doesn't tell you which device was being handled.
>>
>> Do you find a default Linux allocation failure report insufficient then?
>>
>> Would you like to to achieve that the requested information can be determined
>> from a backtrace?
> 
> It is not practical to do this.

I imagine that this depends on details if a backtrace could eventually
be configured for your specific needs.


> The memory allocation routines do not for what purpose
> the memory is being allocated;

Do you want an improved accounting for these purposes?


> hence when a failure occurs they cannot tell what device
> (or other part of the system) will be affected.

I know that other programs can provide dumps for function call
stacks where the parameters which were passed in previous calls
could be decoded to some degree.


> That's why we have a secondary error message.

I am curious on how the relevance of such messages will be interpreted
by other developers in this software area.

Regards,
Markus