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author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2021-04-29 23:00:58 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -0700 |
commit | 77febec206262bd80c4176f2281a7970cfe69536 (patch) | |
tree | 603a5d15f61e448e0e4549e60f4772d22d60c9cf /mm | |
parent | 1f9d03c5e999ed5a57fa4d8aec9fdf67a6234b80 (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.c | 2 |
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; } |