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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2021-04-29 23:00:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-04-30 11:20:42 -0700
commit77febec206262bd80c4176f2281a7970cfe69536 (patch)
tree603a5d15f61e448e0e4549e60f4772d22d60c9cf /mm
parent1f9d03c5e999ed5a57fa4d8aec9fdf67a6234b80 (diff)
mm/page_alloc: drop pr_info_ratelimited() in alloc_contig_range()
The information that some PFNs are busy is: a) not helpful for ordinary users: we don't even know *who* called alloc_contig_range(). This is certainly not worth a pr_info.*(). b) not really helpful for debugging: we don't have any details *why* these PFNs are busy, and that is what we usually care about. c) not complete: there are other cases where we fail alloc_contig_range() using different paths that are not getting recorded. For example, we reach this path once we succeeded in isolating pageblocks, but failed to migrate some pages - which can happen easily on ZONE_NORMAL (i.e., has_unmovable_pages() is racy) but also on ZONE_MOVABLE i.e., we would have to retry longer to migrate). For example via virtio-mem when unplugging memory, we can create quite some noise (especially with ZONE_NORMAL) that is not of interest to users - it's expected that some allocations may fail as memory is busy. Let's just drop that pr_info_ratelimit() and rather implement a dynamic debugging mechanism in the future that can give us a better reason why alloc_contig_range() failed on specific pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210301150945.77012-1-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index b55073d0e84a..e59d5450d891 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -8676,8 +8676,6 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
/* Make sure the range is really isolated. */
if (test_pages_isolated(outer_start, end, 0)) {
- pr_info_ratelimited("%s: [%lx, %lx) PFNs busy\n",
- __func__, outer_start, end);
ret = -EBUSY;
goto done;
}