linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/41] cpu alloc: Use cpu allocator instead of the builtin modules per cpu allocator

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Date:	Thu, 29 May 2008 22:14:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/41] cpu alloc: Use cpu allocator instead of the builtin
 modules per cpu allocator

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > +			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: per-cpu alignment %li > %li\n",
> > +			mod->name, align, PAGE_SIZE);
> 
> Indenting broke.

Hmmm. Okay.
 
> Alas, PAGE_SIZE has, iirc, unsigned type on some architectures and
> unsigned long on others.  I suspect you'll need to cast it to be able
> to print it.

This is code that was moved.

> > +		percpu = cpu_alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO, align);
> > +		if (!percpu)
> > +			printk(KERN_WARNING "Could not allocate %lu bytes percpu data\n",
> 
> 80-col bustage,.
> 
> A printk like this should, I think, identify what part of the kernel it
> came from.

Again moved code. Should I really do string separations for code 
that is moved?

> But really, I don't think any printk should be present here. 
> cpu_alloc() itself should dump the warning and the backtrace when it
> runs out.  Because a cpu_alloc() failure is a major catastrophe.  It
> probably means a reconfigure-and-reboot cycle.

The code has been able to deal with an allocpercpu failure in the 
past. Why would it have trouble with a cpu_alloc failure here?

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