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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: alloc_contig_range: demote pages busy message from warn to info
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On Tue, Nov 04 2014, Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
> On 11/04/2014 12:43 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:57:53PM +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>>> Having test_pages_isolated failure message as a warning confuses
>>> users into thinking that it is more serious than it really is. In
>>> reality, if called via CMA, allocation will be retried so a single
>>> test_pages_isolated failure does not prevent allocation from
>>> succeeding.
>>>
>>> Demote the warning message to an info message and reformat it such
>>> that the text “failed” does not appear and instead a less worrying
>>> “PFNS busy” is used.
>>
>> What do you expect from this message? Please describe it so that we can
>> review below message helps your goal.
>
> I expect this message to not show up in logs unless there is a real problem.

So frankly I don't care. Feel free to send a patch removing the message
all together. I'll be happy to ack it.

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