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Date:   Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:39:47 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc:     Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm:memcg: add __GFP_NOWARN in
 __memcg_schedule_kmem_cache_create
Message-ID: <20180418133947.GE17484@dhcp22.suse.cz>
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On Wed 18-04-18 06:31:39, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:29:12AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > If there are heavy memory pressure, page allocation with __GFP_NOWAIT
> > fails easily although it's order-0 request.
> > I got below warning 9 times for normal boot.
> > 
> > Let's not make user scared.
> 
> Actually, can you explain why it's OK if this fails?  As I understand this
> code, we'll fail to create a kmalloc cache for this memcg.  What problems
> does that cause?

See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180418072002.GN17484@dhcp22.suse.cz

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs