Re: [Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if crashkernel low memory reserving failed
From: Baoquan He
Date: Tue Sep 22 2015 - 20:20:12 EST
On 09/22/15 at 05:08pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:02:55 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > low_base = memblock_find_in_range(low_size, (1ULL<<32),
> > > > low_size, alignment);
> > > >
> > > > if (!low_base) {
> > > > - if (!auto_set)
> > > > - pr_info("crashkernel low reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
> > > > -
> > > > - return;
> > > > + pr_info("crashkernel low reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
> > >
> > > That's not a terribly useful message. If kdump is now unavailable and
> > > the operator needs to take some remedial action then we should inform
> > > them of this.
> > >
> > > Also, such a message should have higher severity than KERN_INFO?
> >
> > Yes, how about KERN_ERR? It's an unexpected result from kdump side
> > though it doesn't harm the normal kernel.
>
> Sure, KERN_ERR is good. Along with more useful message text.
OK, will do. Thanks for your suggestion.
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