Re: [PATCH v1 5/5] mm/memory_hotplug: print only with DEBUG_VM in online/offline_pages()

From: Wei Yang
Date: Sun Aug 19 2018 - 08:34:15 EST


On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:18:53AM +0200, 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.
>
>But at least, if not, envolve it with a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, but change pr_debug to pr_info.
>

I don't have a clear rule about these debug macro neither.

While when you look at the page related logs in calculate_node_totalpages(),
it is KERNEL_DEBUG level and without any config macro.

Maybe we should leave them at the same state?

>> +#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
>--
>Oscar Salvador
>SUSE L3

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