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| author | David Rientjes | 2013-04-30 00:06:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2013-04-30 00:54:28 +0200 |
| commit | 4b59e6c4730978679b414a8da61514a2518da512 (patch) | |
| tree | 241f48acea764191a458c6ae2d058b079b24f12d /mm/shmem.c | |
| parent | mm: trace filemap add and del (diff) | |
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mm, show_mem: suppress page counts in non-blockable contexts
On large systems with a lot of memory, walking all RAM to determine page
types may take a half second or even more.
In non-blockable contexts, the page allocator will emit a page allocation
failure warning unless __GFP_NOWARN is specified. In such contexts, irqs
are typically disabled and such a lengthy delay may even result in NMI
watchdog timeouts.
To fix this, suppress the page walk in such contexts when printing the
page allocation failure warning.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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