On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 04:33:47PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, David Rientjes wrote: > > > It's unnecessary to excessively spam the kernel log anytime the BTS buffer > > cannot be allocated, so make this allocation __GFP_NOWARN. > > > > The user probably will want to at least find some artifact that the > > allocation has failed in the past, probably due to fragmentation because > > of its large size, when it's not allocated at bootstrap. Thus, add a > > WARN_ONCE() so something is left behind for them to understand why perf > > commnads that require PEBS is not working properly. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> > > Peter, would you like to ack this? Trying to get this merged in time for > the next merge window.
I've queued it; still don't like it though.
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