From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mm/page_alloc: Enumerate bad page reasons
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:45:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d482aa0a-db1a-a4df-e2c5-1598e0fb28ad@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1585551097-27283-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
On 30.03.20 08:51, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Enumerate all existing bad page reasons which can be used in bad_page() for
> reporting via __dump_page(). Unfortunately __dump_page() cannot be changed.
> __dump_page() is called from dump_page() that accepts a raw string and is
> also an exported symbol that is currently being used from various generic
> memory functions and other drivers. This reduces code duplication while
> reporting bad pages.
Yeah sounds nice, but "56 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)" does not sound
so nice ... and the "code duplication" is actually "repeating strings".
... I don't think we want/need this.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-30 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-30 6:51 [RFC] mm/page_alloc: Enumerate bad page reasons Anshuman Khandual
2020-03-30 8:43 ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-30 12:25 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-03-30 12:34 ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-30 8:45 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2020-03-30 12:28 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-03-30 12:38 ` David Hildenbrand
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