> On Jul 27, 2019, at 6:13 AM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 02:23:30PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
>> As mentioned in anther thread, the situation for kmemleak under memory
>> pressure
>> has already been unhealthy. I don't feel comfortable to make it even worse by
>> reverting this commit alone. This could potentially make kmemleak kill itself
>> easier and miss some more real memory leak later.
>>
>> To make it really a short-term solution before the reverting, I think someone
>> needs to follow up with the mempool solution with tunable pool size mentioned
>> in,
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190328145917.gc10...@arrakis.emea.arm.com/
>
> Before my little bit of spare time disappears, let's add the tunable to
> the mempool size so that I can repost the patch. Are you ok with a
> kernel cmdline parameter or you'd rather change it at runtime? The
> latter implies a minor extension to mempool to allow it to refill on
> demand. I'd personally go for the former.
Agreed. The cmdline is good enough.
