Re: Warn when we run out of swap space (was Re: Misleading OOMmessages)

[Pavel Machek]

On Fri 2009-05-22 10:17:15, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> Subject: Warn if we run out of swap space
> 
> Running out of swap space means that the evicton of anonymous pages may no longer
> be possible which can lead to OOM conditions.
> 
> Print a warning when swap space first becomes exhausted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

WARN_ONCE... will it mean a backtrace? That's quite an overkill for
something that is not a kernel fault (and where backtrace is useless).

But  yes, I agree in principle.
									Pavel

> @@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ swp_entry_t get_swap_page(void)
>  	nr_swap_pages++;
>  noswap:
>  	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
> +	WARN_ONCE(1, "All of swap is in use. Some pages cannot be swapped out.");
>  	return (swp_entry_t) {0};
>  }

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