linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] mm: Honor min_free

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Date:	Thu, 4 Jul 2013 18:16:41 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mm: Honor min_free_kbytes set by user

On Thu 04-07-13 09:10:39, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 18:07 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > A warning is printed when the new value is ignored.
> 
> []
> 
> > +		printk(KERN_WARNING "min_free_kbytes is not updated to %d"
> > +				"because user defined value %d is preferred\n",
> > +				new_min_free_kbytes, user_min_free_kbytes);
> 
> Please use pr_warn and coalesce the format.

Sure can do that. mm/page_alloc.c doesn't seem to be unified in that
regards (44 printks and only 4 pr_<foo>) so I used printk.

> You'd've noticed a missing space between %d and because.

True

Thanks
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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