From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> printk offers %pGg for quite some time so let's use it to get a human readable list of invalid flags. The original output would be [ 429.191962] gfp: 2 after the change [ 429.191962] Unexpected gfp: 0x2 (__GFP_HIGHMEM) Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.c | 3 ++- mm/slub.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 763096a247f6..03fb724d6e48 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2686,7 +2686,8 @@ static struct page *cache_grow_begin(struct kmem_cache *cachep, * critical path in kmem_cache_alloc(). */ if (unlikely(flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK)) { - pr_emerg("gfp: %u\n", flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK); + gfp_t invalid_mask = flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK; + pr_emerg("Unexpected gfp: %#x (%pGg)\n", invalid_mask, &invalid_mask); BUG(); } local_flags = flags & (GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK|GFP_RECLAIM_MASK); diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index cbf4e0e07d41..dd5a9eee7df5 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -1628,7 +1628,8 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node) static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node) { if (unlikely(flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK)) { - pr_emerg("gfp: %u\n", flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK); + gfp_t invalid_mask = flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK; + pr_emerg("Unexpected gfp: %#x (%pGg)\n", invalid_mask, &invalid_mask); BUG(); } -- 2.8.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>