From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>,
andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, david@redhat.com,
vbabka@suse.cz, linmiaohe@huawei.com, cl@linux.com,
penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, pmladek@suse.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com, linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] vsprintf: dump full information of page flags in pGp
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 18:59:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210201185940.GS308988@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c475803276ea2b32cadc8f72d397c180475d0cc.camel@perches.com>
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 10:51:03AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 14:15 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:56:10PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > > - Before the patch,
> > > [ 6343.396602] Slab 0x000000004382e02b objects=33 used=3 fp=0x000000009ae06ffc flags=0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head)
> > >
> > > - After the patch,
> > > [ 6871.296131] Slab 0x00000000c0e19a37 objects=33 used=3 fp=0x00000000c4902159 flags=0x17ffffc0010200(Node 0,Zone 2,Lastcpupid 0x1fffff,slab|head)
> >
> > I would suggest it will be easier to parse as:
> >
> > flags=0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
> >
> > That should alleviate the concerns about debugfs format change -- we've
> > never guaranteed that flag names won't change, and they now look enough
> > like flags that parsers shouldn't fall over them.
>
> Seems sensible and would make the generating code simpler too.
>
> But is it worth the vsprintf code expansion for the 5 current uses?
>
> mm/debug.c: pr_warn("%sflags: %#lx(%pGp)%s\n", type, head->flags, &head->flags,
> mm/memory-failure.c: pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: %s migration failed %d, type %lx (%pGp)\n",
> mm/memory-failure.c: pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: %s isolation failed, page count %d, type %lx (%pGp)\n",
> mm/memory-failure.c: pr_info("%s: %#lx: unknown page type: %lx (%pGp)\n",
> mm/page_owner.c: "PFN %lu type %s Block %lu type %s Flags %#lx(%pGp)\n",
>
> Wouldn't it be more sensible just to put this code in a new function
> call in mm?
Does it matter whether the code lives in vsprintf.c or mm/debug.c? It's
built into the kernel core either way. I'm not a huge fan of the current
way %pFoo is handled, but unless/until it's drastically revised, I don't
think this proposed patch makes anything worse.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-01 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-01 11:56 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm, vsprintf: dump full information of page flags in pGp Yafang Shao
2021-02-01 11:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm, slub: use pGp to print page flags Yafang Shao
2021-02-01 11:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm, slub: don't combine pr_err with INFO Yafang Shao
2021-02-01 11:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] vsprintf: dump full information of page flags in pGp Yafang Shao
2021-02-01 13:05 ` Joe Perches
2021-02-01 13:27 ` Yafang Shao
2021-02-01 13:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-01 13:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-01 13:34 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-01 13:52 ` Yafang Shao
2021-02-01 16:03 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-01 13:27 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-01 13:49 ` Yafang Shao
2021-02-01 16:16 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-01 16:20 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-02-02 13:25 ` Yafang Shao
2021-02-01 14:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-01 14:44 ` Yafang Shao
2021-02-01 18:51 ` Joe Perches
2021-02-01 18:59 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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