From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <OSalvador@suse.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: lower the printk loglevel for __dump_page messages
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:27:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77da3b3f-9f3e-560f-1f00-0eb8523447ef@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181116083020.20260-3-mhocko@kernel.org>
On 11/16/2018 02:00 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> __dump_page messages use KERN_EMERG resp. KERN_ALERT loglevel (this is
> the case since 2004). Most callers of this function are really detecting
> a critical page state and BUG right after. On the other hand the
> function is called also from contexts which just want to inform about
> the page state and those would rather not disrupt logs that much (e.g.
> some systems route these messages to the normal console).
>
> Reduce the loglevel to KERN_WARNING to make dump_page easier to reuse
> for other contexts while those messages will still make it to the kernel
> log in most setups. Even if the loglevel setup filters warnings away
> those paths that are really critical already print the more targeted
> error or panic and that should make it to the kernel log.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-16 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-16 8:30 [PATCH 0/5] mm, memory_hotplug: improve memory offlining failures debugging Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 8:30 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: print more information about mapping in __dump_page Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 11:55 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-16 13:50 ` William Kucharski
2018-11-16 8:30 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: lower the printk loglevel for __dump_page messages Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 11:57 ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2018-11-16 8:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm, memory_hotplug: drop pointless block alignment checks from __offline_pages Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 10:34 ` osalvador
2018-11-16 11:19 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 11:56 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-16 8:30 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm, memory_hotplug: print reason for the offlining failure Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 10:38 ` osalvador
2018-11-16 12:04 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-16 8:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm, memory_hotplug: be more verbose for memory offline failures Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 10:47 ` osalvador
2018-11-16 11:22 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 12:29 ` osalvador
2018-11-16 12:07 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-16 11:55 ` [PATCH 0/5] mm, memory_hotplug: improve memory offlining failures debugging Anshuman Khandual
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