linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: print information when THP is disabled automatically

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:40:22 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: print information when THP is disabled
 automatically

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 01:26:58AM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> ??? 2011???06???21??? 01:01, Mel Gorman ??????:
> >On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:34:30AM +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> >>Print information when THP is disabled automatically so that
> >>users can find this info in dmesg.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: WANG Cong<amwang@...hat.com>
> >>---
> >>  mm/huge_memory.c |    5 ++++-
> >>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> >>index 7fb44cc..07679da 100644
> >>--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> >>+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> >>@@ -544,8 +544,11 @@ static int __init hugepage_init(void)
> >>  	 * where the extra memory used could hurt more than TLB overhead
> >>  	 * is likely to save.  The admin can still enable it through /sys.
> >>  	 */
> >>-	if (totalram_pages<  (CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_THRESHOLD<<  (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)))
> >>+	if (totalram_pages<  (CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_THRESHOLD
> >>+					<<  (20 - PAGE_SHIFT))) {
> >>+		printk(KERN_INFO "hugepage: disabled auotmatically\n");
> >>  		transparent_hugepage_flags = 0;
> >>+	}
> >>
> >>  	start_khugepaged();
> >>
> >
> >Guess this doesn't hurt. You misspelled automatically though and
> >mentioning "hugepage" could be confused with hugetlbfs.
> >
> 
> Yeah, sorry for the typo.
> 
> But, there are many printk messages in the same file start with "hugepage:".
> :-) I can send a patch to replace all of them with "THP" if you want...
> 

My bad. They are in a memory allocation failure path that should be
impossible to trigger but I should still have spotted the prefix at
the time and complained. Changing them to THP would be nice.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/