On 19.08.2018 14:34, Wei Yang wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:18:53AM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote: >>> failed_addition: >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM >>> pr_debug("online_pages [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed\n", >>> (unsigned long long) pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, >>> (((unsigned long long) pfn + nr_pages) << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1); >>> +#endif >> >> I have never been sure about this. >> IMO, if I fail to online pages, I want to know I failed. >> I think that pr_err would be better than pr_debug and without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. >> >> But at least, if not, envolve it with a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, but change pr_debug to pr_info. >> > > I don't have a clear rule about these debug macro neither. > > While when you look at the page related logs in calculate_node_totalpages(), > it is KERNEL_DEBUG level and without any config macro. > > Maybe we should leave them at the same state? I guess we can do that for the to debug messages. When offlining memory right now: :/# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/online [ 24.476207] Offlined Pages 32768 [ 24.477200] remove from free list 48000 1024 50000 [ 24.477896] remove from free list 48400 1024 50000 [ 24.478584] remove from free list 48800 1024 50000 [ 24.479454] remove from free list 48c00 1024 50000 [ 24.480192] remove from free list 49000 1024 50000 [ 24.480957] remove from free list 49400 1024 50000 [ 24.481752] remove from free list 49800 1024 50000 [ 24.482578] remove from free list 49c00 1024 50000 [ 24.483302] remove from free list 4a000 1024 50000 [ 24.484300] remove from free list 4a400 1024 50000 [ 24.484902] remove from free list 4a800 1024 50000 [ 24.485462] remove from free list 4ac00 1024 50000 [ 24.486381] remove from free list 4b000 1024 50000 [ 24.487108] remove from free list 4b400 1024 50000 [ 24.487842] remove from free list 4b800 1024 50000 [ 24.488610] remove from free list 4bc00 1024 50000 [ 24.489548] remove from free list 4c000 1024 50000 [ 24.490392] remove from free list 4c400 1024 50000 [ 24.491224] remove from free list 4c800 1024 50000 ... While "remove from free list" is pr_info under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, "Offlined Pages ..." is pr_info without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb