linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: alloc_contig_range: demote pages busy message from warn to info

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Date:	Mon,  3 Nov 2014 17:57:53 +0100
From:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: alloc_contig_range: demote pages busy message from warn to info

Having test_pages_isolated failure message as a warning confuses
users into thinking that it is more serious than it really is.  In
reality, if called via CMA, allocation will be retried so a single
test_pages_isolated failure does not prevent allocation from
succeeding.

Demote the warning message to an info message and reformat it such
that the text “failed” does not appear and instead a less worrying
“PFNS busy” is used.

Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 372e3f3..e2731eb 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6431,13 +6431,12 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 
 	/* Make sure the range is really isolated. */
 	if (test_pages_isolated(outer_start, end, false)) {
-		pr_warn("alloc_contig_range test_pages_isolated(%lx, %lx) failed\n",
-		       outer_start, end);
+		pr_info("%s: [%lx, %lx) PFNs busy\n",
+			__func__, outer_start, end);
 		ret = -EBUSY;
 		goto done;
 	}
 
-
 	/* Grab isolated pages from freelists. */
 	outer_end = isolate_freepages_range(&cc, outer_start, end);
 	if (!outer_end) {
-- 
2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5

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