The patch titled Subject: mm/vmscan: print err before panic has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-vmscan-print-err-before-panic.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-vmscan-print-err-before-panic.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Angus Chen <angus.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/vmscan: print err before panic Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 16:37:00 +0800 If panic is enable,the err information will not be printed before bugon, So swap it. Print the return value of PTR_ERR(pgdat->kswapd) also. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230906083700.181-1-angus.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Angus Chen <angus.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-print-err-before-panic +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -7917,8 +7917,9 @@ void __meminit kswapd_run(int nid) pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid); if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) { /* failure at boot is fatal */ + pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %dï¼?ret=%ld\n", + nid, PTR_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)); BUG_ON(system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING); - pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid); pgdat->kswapd = NULL; } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from angus.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-vmscan-print-err-before-panic.patch