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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.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 10:43:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200330084300.GC14243@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1585551097-27283-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

On Mon 30-03-20 12:21:37, 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.

I dunno. It sounds like over engineering something that is an internal
stuff. Besides that I consider string reasons kinda obvious and I am
pretty sure I would have to check them for each numeric alias when want
to read the code. Yeah, yeah, nothing really hard but still...

So I am not really sure this is all worth the code churn. Besides
that I stongly suspect you wanted ...

> -static void bad_page(struct page *page, const char *reason,
> +static void bad_page(struct page *page, int reason,
>  		unsigned long bad_flags)

... enum page_bad_reason reason here, right? What is the point of declaring
an enum when you are not using it?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-30  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-30  6:51 Anshuman Khandual
2020-03-30  8:43 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2020-03-30 12:25   ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-03-30 12:34     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-30  8:45 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 12:28   ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-03-30 12:38     ` David Hildenbrand

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