Re: + mm-hugetlb-suppress-wrong-warning-info-when-alloc-gigantic-page.patch added to -mm tree

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On 2/19/21 12:11 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 12:04:32PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> On 2/19/21 11:47 AM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:37:17AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The patch titled
>>>>      Subject: mm/hugetlb: suppress wrong warning info when alloc gigantic page
>>>> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>>>>      mm-hugetlb-suppress-wrong-warning-info-when-alloc-gigantic-page.patch
>>>>
>>>> This patch should soon appear at
>>>>     https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-suppress-wrong-warning-info-when-alloc-gigantic-page.patch  
>>>> and later at
>>>>     https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-suppress-wrong-warning-info-when-alloc-gigantic-page.patch  
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: Chen Wandun <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Subject: mm/hugetlb: suppress wrong warning info when alloc gigantic page
>>>>
>>>> If hugetlb_cma is enabled, it will skip boot time allocation when
>>>> allocating gigantic page, that doesn't means allocation failure, so
>>>> suppress this warning info.
>>>>
>>>> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210219123909.13130-1-chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Fixes: cf11e85fc08c ("mm: hugetlb: optionally allocate gigantic hugepages using cma")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Chen Wandun <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Thank!s
>>
>>
>> Roman, I was under the impression that this warning provided some value?
>>
>> It will only be logged if user asks for both preallocation and cma reservation
>> on the command line.  In this case, we ignore the parameter requesting
>> preallocation.  It seems reasonable that we log a warning if dropping a
>> user requested parameter.
> 
> There are two warnings:
> "HugeTLB: hugetlb_cma is enabled, skip boot time allocation\n" and
> "HugeTLB: allocating %lu of page size %s failed.  Only allocated %lu hugepages.\n"
> 
> The point of this patch is to skip printing the second one if the first one is printed.
> It makes sense to me.
> 
> Thanks!

Thanks you!

My bad for not taking a closer look.

-- 
Mike Kravetz



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