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From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oscar Salvador <OSalvador@suse.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] mm, memory_hotplug: print reason for the offlining failure
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 11:53:21 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18bd20ff-7b3c-bcf2-042d-5ab59fdd42e1@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181107101830.17405-5-mhocko@kernel.org>



On 11/07/2018 03:48 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> 
> The memory offlining failure reporting is inconsistent and insufficient.
> Some error paths simply do not report the failure to the log at all.
> When we do report there are no details about the reason of the failure
> and there are several of them which makes memory offlining failures
> hard to debug.
> 
> Make sure that the
> 	memory offlining [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed
> message is printed for all failures and also provide a short textual
> reason for the failure e.g.
> 
> [ 1984.506184] rac1 kernel: memory offlining [mem 0x82600000000-0x8267fffffff] failed due to signal backoff
> 
> this tells us that the offlining has failed because of a signal pending
> aka user intervention.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

It might help to enumerate these failure reason strings and use macros.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-08  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-07 10:18 [RFC PATCH 0/5] mm, memory_hotplug: improve memory offlining failures debugging Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm: print more information about mapping in __dump_page Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18   ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-24  0:04   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-24  0:04     ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-25  8:10     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] mm: lower the printk loglevel for __dump_page messages Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18   ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-16  0:56   ` Baoquan He
2018-12-12 14:25   ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-12 14:34     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm, memory_hotplug: drop pointless block alignment checks from __offline_pages Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18   ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] mm, memory_hotplug: print reason for the offlining failure Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18   ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 22:04   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-07 22:04     ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-08  8:01     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-13  8:02     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-08  6:23   ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2018-11-08  7:59     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm, memory_hotplug: be more verbose for memory offline failures Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:18   ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-08  7:16   ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-08  8:12     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-08  8:19       ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-13  8:03       ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-16  0:07   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-16  0:07     ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-16  7:21     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-16  7:21       ` Michal Hocko

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