Re: [PATCH] mm: alloc_contig_range: demote pages busy message from warn to info

[Peter Hurley]

On 11/04/2014 12:43 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:57:53PM +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> Having test_pages_isolated failure message as a warning confuses
>> users into thinking that it is more serious than it really is.  In
>> reality, if called via CMA, allocation will be retried so a single
>> test_pages_isolated failure does not prevent allocation from
>> succeeding.
>>
>> Demote the warning message to an info message and reformat it such
>> that the text âfailedâ does not appear and instead a less worrying
>> âPFNS busyâ is used.
> 
> What do you expect from this message? Please describe it so that we can
> review below message helps your goal.

I expect this message to not show up in logs unless there is a real problem.

This message is trivially reproducible on a 10GB x86 machine on 3.16.y
kernels configured with CONFIG_DMA_CMA.


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