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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxarm@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vmalloc: Add the right hint when vmalloc failed
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:53:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200710135301.GM12769@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200710134956.GA14549@pc636>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 03:49:56PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 08:17:52PM +0800, Tian Tao wrote:
> > > In fact "vmalloc=<size>" cmdline option is not available on many
> > > platforms.When the user encounters this error, add the correct
> > > hint to prevent misleading.
> > 
> > i don't think this is an improvement.
> >
> Matthew, maybe it should not be considered as improvements?

Every patch should be an improvement along some dimension.  This doesn't
feel like an improvement in any way.

> It is rather an extra information that indicates that your
> ARCH may not support "vmalloc" early parameter.

If anything needs to be improved, it's the documentation, not this
error message.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-10 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-10 12:17 [PATCH v3] vmalloc: Add the right hint when vmalloc failed Tian Tao
2020-07-10 12:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-10 13:49   ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-10 13:53     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-07-10 14:04       ` Uladzislau Rezki

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