Re: [PATCH 6/9] mm/page_alloc: add informative debugging message inpage_outside_zone_boundaries()

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 16:28:48 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +	if (ret)
> > +		pr_debug("page %lu outside zone [ %lu - %lu ]\n",
> > +			pfn, start_pfn, start_pfn + sp);
> > +
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> 
> As this condition leads to a VM_BUG_ON(), "pr_debug" seems rather wimpy
> and I doubt if we need to be concerned about flooding the console.
> 
> I'll switch it to pr_err.

otoh, as nobody has ever hit that VM_BUG_ON() (yes?), do we really need
the patch?

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