Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm, memory_hotplug: improve memory offlining failures debugging

Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-16T11:55:42Z

On 11/16/2018 02:00 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi,
> this has been posted as an RFC [1]. I have screwed during rebasing so
> there were few compilation issues in the previous version. I have also
> integrated review feedback from Andrew and Anshuman.
>
> I have been promissing to improve memory offlining failures debugging
> for quite some time. As things stand now we get only very limited
> information in the kernel log when the offlining fails. It is usually
> only
> [ 1984.506184] rac1 kernel: memory offlining [mem 0x82600000000-0x8267fffffff] failed
> without no further details. We do not know what exactly fails and for
> what reason. Whenever I was forced to debug such a failure I've always
> had to do a debugging patch to tell me more. We can enable some
> tracepoints but it would be much better to get a better picture without
> using them.
>
> This patch series does 2 things. The first one is to make dump_page
> more usable by printing more information about the mapping patch 1.
> Then it reduces the log level from emerg to warning so that this
> function is usable from less critical context patch 2. Then I have
> added more detailed information about the offlining failure patch 4
> and finally add dump_page to isolation and offlining migration paths.
> Patch 3 is a trivial cleanup.
>
> Does this look go to you?
>
> [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107101830.17405-1-mhocko@kernel.org
>

Agreed. It has been always difficult to debug memory hot plug problems
without a debug patch particularly to understand the unmovable pages
and their isolation failures in the range to be removed. This series
is definitely going to help improve the situation.