Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Fix typo in debug info of calculate_node_totalpages

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri May 04 2018 - 09:19:01 EST


On Fri 04-05-18 14:52:09, Huaisheng Ye wrote:
> realtotalpages is calculated by taking off absent_pages from
> spanned_pages in every zone.
> Debug message of calculate_node_totalpages shall accurately
> indicate that it is real totalpages to avoid ambiguity.

Is the printk actually useful? Why don't we simply remove it? You can
get the information from /proc/zoneinfo so why to litter the dmesg
output?

> Signed-off-by: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 1b39db4..9d57db2 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5967,7 +5967,7 @@ static void __meminit calculate_node_totalpages(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
>
> pgdat->node_spanned_pages = totalpages;
> pgdat->node_present_pages = realtotalpages;
> - printk(KERN_DEBUG "On node %d totalpages: %lu\n", pgdat->node_id,
> + printk(KERN_DEBUG "On node %d realtotalpages: %lu\n", pgdat->node_id,
> realtotalpages);
> }
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs