tree d697010cf38907785a6283a26c02a081f0ea1e96
parent 0a08739e81671de2cb690774937fe510c000b27f
author Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> 1296124226 +0000
committer Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> 1296153126 +0000

kmemleak: Allow kmemleak metadata allocations to fail

This patch adds __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOMEMALLOC flags to the kmemleak
metadata allocations so that it has a smaller effect on the users of the
kernel slab allocator. Since kmemleak allocations can now fail more
often, this patch also reduces the verbosity by passing __GFP_NOWARN and
not dumping the stack trace when a kmemleak allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>