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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Jörg Rödel" <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"SF Markus Elfring" <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel-IOMMU: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in init_dmars()
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 17:37:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1516498672.24895.2.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180120194004.GC28161@8bytes.org>

On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 20:40 +0100, Jörg Rödel wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 03:55:37PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Do you need any more background information for this general
> > transformation pattern?
> 
> No.
> 
> > Do you find the Linux allocation failure report insufficient for this
> > use case?
> 
> Yes, because it can't tell me what the code was trying to allocate.

While Markus' commit messages are nearly universally terrible,
is there really any signficant value in knowing when any
particular OOM condition occurs other than the subsystem that
became OOM?

You're going to be hosed in any case.

Why isn't the generic OOM stack dump good enough?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-21  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-20 13:00 SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-20 13:34 ` Jörg Rödel
2018-01-20 14:55   ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-20 19:40     ` Jörg Rödel
2018-01-21  1:37       ` Joe Perches [this message]
2018-01-21  7:19         ` Jörg Rödel
2018-01-21 19:37           ` Joe Perches

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