linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] memblock: Introduce bottom-up allocation mode

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Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:37:34 +0800
From:	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, lenb@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] memblock: Introduce bottom-up allocation mode

Hello tejun,

Thanks for your quick comments first:)

On 09/26/2013 10:45 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 02:27:48AM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE
>> +static inline void memblock_set_bottom_up(bool enable)
>> +{
>> +	memblock.bottom_up = enable;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline bool memblock_bottom_up(void)
>> +{
>> +	return memblock.bottom_up;
>> +}
> 
> Can you please explain what this is for here?

OK, will do.

> 
>> +		/*
>> +		 * we always limit bottom-up allocation above the kernel,
>> +		 * but top-down allocation doesn't have the limit, so
>> +		 * retrying top-down allocation may succeed when bottom-up
>> +		 * allocation failed.
>> +		 *
>> +		 * bottom-up allocation is expected to be fail very rarely,
>> +		 * so we use WARN_ONCE() here to see the stack trace if
>> +		 * fail happens.
>> +		 */
>> +		WARN_ONCE(1, "memblock: Failed to allocate memory in bottom up "
>> +			"direction. Now try top down direction.\n");
>> +	}
> 
> You and I would know what was going on and what the consequence of the
> failure may be but the above warning message is kinda useless to a
> user / admin, right?  It doesn't really say anything meaningful.
> 

Hmmmm.. May be something like this:

WARN_ONCE(1, "Failed to allocated memory above the kernel in bottom-up,"
          "so try to allocate memory below the kernel.");

Thanks

-- 
Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei
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