Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Warn the user when issues arise on boot due to hugepages

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>]

On Mon 12-06-17 13:28:30, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> * Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> [170606 02:01]:
[..]
> > And just to be more clear. I do not _object_ to the warning I just
> > _think_ it is not very useful actually. If somebody misconfigure so
> > badly that hugetlb allocations fail during the boot then it will be
> > very likely visible. But if somebody misconfigures slightly less to not
> > fail the system is very likely to not work properly and there will be no
> > warning that this might be the source of problems. So is it worth adding
> > more code with that limited usefulness?
> 
> I think telling the user that something failed is very useful.  This
> obviously does not cover off all failure cases as you have pointed out,
> but it is certainly better than silently continuing as is the case
> today.
> 
> Are you suggesting that the error message be provided if the failure
> happens after boot as well?

No, I am just suggesting that the warning as proposed is not useful and
it is worth the additional (aleit little) code. It doesn't cover many
other miscofigurations which might be even more serious because there
would be still _some_ memory left while the system would crawl to death.

My objections are not hard enough to give a right NAK I just think this
is a pointless code which won't help the current situation much.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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