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From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Warn about costly page allocation
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 23:12:26 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120709141225.GA17314@barrios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jtek81$ja5$1@dough.gmane.org>

Hi Cong,

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 12:53:22PM +0000, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 at 08:46 GMT, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> WARN_ON_ONCE would tell you what is trying to satisfy the allocation.
> >
> > Do you mean that it would be better to use WARN_ON_ONCE rather than raw printk?
> > If so, I would like to insist raw printk because WARN_ON_ONCE could be disabled
> > by !CONFIG_BUG.
> > If I miss something, could you elaborate it more?
> >
> 
> Raw printk could be disabled by !CONFIG_PRINTK too, and given that:

Yes.
In such case, It is very hard to diagnose the system so at least
we enables CONFIG_PRINTK.

> 
> config PRINTK
>         default y
>         bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
> 		    
> config BUG
>         bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
>         default y
> 
> they are both configurable only when ERPERT, so we don't need to
> worry much. :)

Embedded can use CONFIG_PRINTK and !CONFIG_BUG for size optimization
and printk(pr_xxx) + dump_stack is common technic used in all over kernel
sources. Do you have any reason you don't like it?


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-09 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-09  2:38 [PATCH] mm: Warn about costly page allocation Minchan Kim
2012-07-09  8:22 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-09  8:46   ` Minchan Kim
2012-07-09  9:12     ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-09 12:50       ` Minchan Kim
2012-07-09 13:05         ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-09 13:19           ` Minchan Kim
2012-07-09 20:53             ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-09 12:53     ` Cong Wang
2012-07-09 14:12       ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2012-07-11  2:45         ` Cong Wang

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