linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] trace : use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc

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Date:   Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:01:26 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@...il.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, chunyan.zhang@...soc.com,
        Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trace : use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc


This is also the second version of the patch. Please add a v2 to the
subject, otherwise it gets confusing to know which one to pull in.

 "[PATCH v2] ..."

-- Steve


On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:04:12 +0800
Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@...il.com> wrote:

> High order memory stuff within trace could introduce OOM, use kvmalloc instead.
> 
> Please find the bellowing for the call stack we run across in an android system. The scenario happens when traced_probes is woken up to get a large quantity of trace even if free memory is even higher than watermark_low. 
>