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    mm: print vmalloc() state after allocation failures · 22943ab1
    Dave Hansen authored
    I was tracking down a page allocation failure that ended up in vmalloc().
    Since vmalloc() uses 0-order pages, if somebody asks for an insane amount
    of memory, we'll still get a warning with "order:0" in it.  That's not
    very useful.
    
    During recovery, vmalloc() also nicely frees all of the memory that it got
    up to the point of the failure.  That is wonderful, but it also quickly
    hides any issues.  We have a much different sitation if vmalloc()
    repeatedly fails 10GB in to:
    
    	vmalloc(100 * 1<<30);
    
    versus repeatedly failing 4096 bytes in to a:
    
    	vmalloc(8192);
    
    This patch will print out messages that look like this:
    
    [   68.123503] vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 66805763 of 13426688 bytes
    [   68.124218] bash: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xd2
    [   68.124811] Pid: 3770, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.39-rc3-00082-g85f2e689-dirty #333
    [   68.125579] Call Trace:
    [   68.125853]  [<ffffffff810f6da6>] warn_alloc_failed+0x146/0x170
    [   68.126464]  [<ffff...
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