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

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 17-02-21 08:36:03, Minchan Kim wrote:
> alloc_contig_range is usually used on cma area or movable zone.
> It's critical if the page migration fails on those areas so
> dump more debugging message like memory_hotplug unless user
> specifiy __GFP_NOWARN.

I agree with David that this has a potential to generate a lot of output
and it is not really clear whether it is worth it. Page isolation code
already has REPORT_FAILURE mode which currently used only for the memory
hotplug because this was just too noisy from the CMA path - d381c54760dc
("mm: only report isolation failures when offlining memory").

Maybe migration failures are less likely to fail but still. Doesn't CMA
allocator provide some useful error reporting on its own?

[...]
> @@ -8736,8 +8747,11 @@ struct page *alloc_contig_pages(unsigned long nr_pages, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  				 * and cause alloc_contig_range() to fail...
>  				 */
>  				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> +
> +				if (zone_idx(zone) != ZONE_MOVABLE)
> +					gfp_flags = gfp_mask | __GFP_NOWARN;

Nack to this. Caller shouldn't tweak gfp mask of the caller. If we
really want to control the reporting based on __GFP_NOWARN or a lack of
it then this has to be under control of the caller.

>  				ret = __alloc_contig_pages(pfn, nr_pages,
> -							gfp_mask);
> +							gfp_flags);
>  				if (!ret)
>  					return pfn_to_page(pfn);
>  				spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
> -- 
> 2.30.0.478.g8a0d178c01-goog
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs