Re: [PATCH] mm: introduce dump_page() and print symbolic flag names

From: AmÃrico Wang
Date: Wed Dec 16 2009 - 10:34:15 EST


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:33:10PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:26:40PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>> - introduce dump_page() to print the page info for debugging some error condition.
>> - convert three mm users: bad_page(), print_bad_pte() and memory offline failure.
>> - print an extra field: the symbolic names of page->flags
>>
>> Example dump_page() output:
>>
>> [ 157.521694] page:ffffea0000a7cba8 count:2 mapcount:1
>> mapping:ffff88001c901791 index:147
> ~~~ this is in fact 0x147
>
>The index value may sometimes be misread as decimal number, shall this
>be fixed by adding a "0x" prefix?


Using '%#x' will do.

Thanks.


>
>> [ 157.525570] page flags: 100000000100068(uptodate|lru|active|swapbacked)
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