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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:18:53 +0200
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/5] mm/memory_hotplug: print only with DEBUG_VM in
 online/offline_pages()
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>  failed_addition:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>  	pr_debug("online_pages [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed\n",
>  		 (unsigned long long) pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
>  		 (((unsigned long long) pfn + nr_pages) << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1);
> +#endif

I have never been sure about this.
IMO, if I fail to online pages, I want to know I failed.
I think that pr_err would be better than pr_debug and without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

But at least, if not, envolve it with a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, but change pr_debug to pr_info.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>  	pr_debug("memory offlining [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed\n",
>  		 (unsigned long long) start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
>  		 ((unsigned long long) end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1);
> +#endif

Same goes here.

Thanks
-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3