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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Wang Xiaoqiang <wang_xiaoq@126.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	n-horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Question About Functions "__free_pages_check" and "check_new_page" in page_alloc.c
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 07:14:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <573AA8C2.2060606@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5877fe6c.1e45.154bc401c81.Coremail.wang_xiaoq@126.com>

On 05/17/2016 03:06 AM, Wang Xiaoqiang wrote:
>>yes it would. Why that would matter. The checks should be in an order
>>which could give us a more specific reason with later checks. bad_page()
> 
> I see, you mean the later "bad_reason" is the superset of the previous one.

Not exactly. It's not possible to sort all the reasons like that. But as
Michal said, bad_page() will print all the relevant info so you can
reconstruct all reasons from it. The bad_reason text is mostly a hint
what to check first.

>>will then print more detailed information.
>>--
>>Michal Hocko
>>SUSE Labs
> 
> thank you, Michal.
> 
> 
>  
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-17  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-16 13:42 Question About Functions "__free_pages_check" and "check_new_page" in page_alloc.c Wang Xiaoqiang
2016-05-16 15:16 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-17  1:06   ` Wang Xiaoqiang
2016-05-17  5:14     ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2016-05-17  8:17       ` Wang Xiaoqiang

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