[PATCH v1 1/2] mm/execmem: Print size, align and caller on allocation failure
Tiezhu Yang <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:57:14 +0800
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.loongarch,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The current execmem_vmalloc() function reports an allocation failure with a simplistic "unable to allocate memory" message. This notifies the user that an error occurred, but it acts as a black box during debugging. Enhance pr_warn_ratelimited() within execmem_vmalloc() to explicitly print the requested allocation size, alignment constraints, and the symbolic caller. This diagnostic visibility is valuable for analyzing the root cause of allocation failures and tracking misbehaving subsystems without inducing log pollution. Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <[email protected]> --- mm/execmem.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/execmem.c b/mm/execmem.c index 084a207e4278..f3bc68e0eb98 100644 --- a/mm/execmem.c +++ b/mm/execmem.c @@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ static void *execmem_vmalloc(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size, } if (!p) { - pr_warn_ratelimited("unable to allocate memory\n"); + pr_warn_ratelimited("unable to allocate memory, " + "size=%zu, align=%u, caller is %pS\n", + size, align, __builtin_return_address(0)); return NULL; } -- 2.42.0