Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm, memory_hotplug: print reason for the offlining failure

From: osalvador
Date: Fri Nov 16 2018 - 05:39:11 EST


On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 09:30 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The memory offlining failure reporting is inconsistent and
> insufficient.
> Some error paths simply do not report the failure to the log at all.
> When we do report there are no details about the reason of the
> failure
> and there are several of them which makes memory offlining failures
> hard to debug.
>
> Make sure that the
> memory offlining [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed
> message is printed for all failures and also provide a short textual
> reason for the failure e.g.
>
> [ 1984.506184] rac1 kernel: memory offlining [mem 0x82600000000-
> 0x8267fffffff] failed due to signal backoff
>
> this tells us that the offlining has failed because of a signal
> pending
> aka user intervention.
>
> [akpm: tweak messages a bit]
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>