Re: [PATCH] mm: be more verbose for alloc_contig_range faliures

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Mar 08 2021 - 11:22:37 EST


On Mon 08-03-21 07:58:11, Minchan Kim wrote:
[...]
> It's the dynamic debugging facility
> to enable only when admin want to use it. Otherwise, it's nop
> unless is't not enabled. Furthermore, it doesn't need to invent
> custom dump_page implementation(including dump_page_owner) by
> chaning pr_debug.
> Could you clarify your requirement?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YEEUq8ZRn4WyYWVx@xxxxxxxxxx/

I am not really sure this is the right way to enable dynamic logging.
Maybe it is. I thought we can go with something as simple as pr_debug.
You are right that we do not have dump_page with the kernel log level.
This is rather annoying but a) do we need a full dump_page functionality
and b) can we make it log level aware with the dynamic debug
infrastructure preserved? If not then then an explicit handling is
probably the only way and this should be reviewed by people who are more
familiar with that framework than me.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs