The patch titled Subject: mm/damon/core: remove unnecessary error messages has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-damon-core-remove-unnecessary-error-messages.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-damon-core-remove-unnecessary-error-messages.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-damon-core-remove-unnecessary-error-messages.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/damon/core: remove unnecessary error messages DAMON core prints error messages when damon_target object creation is failed or wrong monitoring attributes are given. Because appropriate error code is returned for each case, the messages are not essential. Also, because the code path can be triggered with user-specified input, this could result in kernel log mistakenly being messy. To avoid the case, this commit removes the messages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211201150440.1088-4-sj@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 4bc05954d007 ("mm/damon: implement a debugfs-based user space interface") Fixes: b9a6ac4e4ede ("mm/damon: adaptively adjust regions") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/damon/core.c | 11 ++--------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/mm/damon/core.c~mm-damon-core-remove-unnecessary-error-messages +++ a/mm/damon/core.c @@ -282,7 +282,6 @@ int damon_set_targets(struct damon_ctx * for (i = 0; i < nr_ids; i++) { t = damon_new_target(ids[i]); if (!t) { - pr_err("Failed to alloc damon_target\n"); /* The caller should do cleanup of the ids itself */ damon_for_each_target_safe(t, next, ctx) damon_destroy_target(t); @@ -312,16 +311,10 @@ int damon_set_attrs(struct damon_ctx *ct unsigned long aggr_int, unsigned long primitive_upd_int, unsigned long min_nr_reg, unsigned long max_nr_reg) { - if (min_nr_reg < 3) { - pr_err("min_nr_regions (%lu) must be at least 3\n", - min_nr_reg); + if (min_nr_reg < 3) return -EINVAL; - } - if (min_nr_reg > max_nr_reg) { - pr_err("invalid nr_regions. min (%lu) > max (%lu)\n", - min_nr_reg, max_nr_reg); + if (min_nr_reg > max_nr_reg) return -EINVAL; - } ctx->sample_interval = sample_int; ctx->aggr_interval = aggr_int; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@xxxxxxxxxx are timers-implement-usleep_idle_range.patch mm-damon-core-fix-fake-load-reports-due-to-uninterruptible-sleeps.patch mm-damon-core-use-better-timer-mechanisms-selection-threshold.patch mm-damon-dbgfs-remove-an-unnecessary-error-message.patch mm-damon-core-remove-unnecessary-error-messages.patch mm-damon-vaddr-remove-an-unnecessary-warning-message.patch mm-damon-vaddr-test-split-a-test-function-having-1024-bytes-frame-size.patch mm-damon-vaddr-test-remove-unnecessary-variables.patch selftests-damon-skip-test-if-damon-is-running.patch selftests-damon-test-damon-enabling-with-empty-target_ids-case.patch selftests-damon-test-wrong-damos-condition-ranges-input.patch selftests-damon-test-debugfs-file-reads-writes-with-huge-count.patch selftests-damon-split-test-cases.patch mm-damon-remove-some-no-need-func-definitions-in-damonh-file-fix.patch