Re: [PATCH v3] vmalloc: Add the right hint when vmalloc failed

[Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:53:01PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.
>
As i mentioned before, i do not have a strong opinion about this
patch. From the other hand improving that message looks normal
to me. Especially in a context that it took a time to understand
that ARM64 does not support it, so we have had a precedent. I am
talking about author of this patch.

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Vlad Rezki