mm, page_alloc: drop should_suppress_show_mem
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:06:49 +0000 (15:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 23:26:33 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
commit2c029a1ea3aac296cd5b47584a579defcc4b4aa0
tree1cd03467941fd59beaf3bb8e9a37b7b6bc302cb6
parente9b257ed150c1f43912bd66031185598451f68a9
mm, page_alloc: drop should_suppress_show_mem

should_suppress_show_mem() was introduced to reduce the overhead of
show_mem on large NUMA systems.  Things have changed since then though.
Namely c78e93630d15 ("mm: do not walk all of system memory during
show_mem") has reduced the overhead considerably.

Moreover warn_alloc_show_mem clears SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES when called from
the IRQ context already so we are not printing per node stats.

Remove should_suppress_show_mem because we are losing potentially
interesting information about allocation failures.  We have seen a bug
report where system gets unresponsive under memory pressure and there is
only

kernel: [2032243.696888] qlge 0000:8b:00.1 ql1: Could not get a page chunk, i=8, clean_idx =200 .
kernel: [2032243.710725] swapper/7: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x1084120(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_COLD|__GFP_COMP)

without an additional information for debugging.  It would be great to see
the state of the page allocator at the moment.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907114334.7088-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c