On 17.08.2018 10:18, Oscar Salvador wrote:
>> failed_addition:
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>> pr_debug("online_pages [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed\n",
>> (unsigned long long) pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
>> (((unsigned long long) pfn + nr_pages) << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1);
>> +#endif
>
> I have never been sure about this.
> IMO, if I fail to online pages, I want to know I failed.
> I think that pr_err would be better than pr_debug and without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
I consider both error messages only partially useful, as
1. They only catch a subset of actual failures the function handles.
E.g. onlining will not report an error message if the memory notifier
failed.
2. Onlining/Offlining is usually (with exceptions - e.g. onlining during
add_memory) triggered from user space, where we present an error
code. At any times, the actual state of the memory blocks can be
observed by querying the state.
I would even vote for dropping the two error case messages completely.
At least I don't consider them very useful.
>
> But at least, if not, envolve it with a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, but change pr_debug
> to pr_info.
>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>> pr_debug("memory offlining [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed\n",
>> (unsigned long long) start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
>> ((unsigned long long) end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1);
>> +#endif
>
> Same goes here.
>
> Thanks
>
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
