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SubjectRe: [RFC] print symbolic page flag names in bad_page()
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:00:16AM +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > So how about this patch?
>
> I like it. Decoding the flags by hand is always a very unpleasant experience.
> Bonus: dump_page can be called from kgdb too.

Thank you. And I'd like to elaborate a bit more on the rational.

Making the page-types tool depend on .config is fragile and dangerous.
It would seem to work but silently return wrong results for a newbie
user or a careless hacker.

And it's troublesome even for home made kernels by a kernel developer.

For example, typically I run many kernel trees with different versions and
kconfigs (both of which change frequently) concurrently. This means I
would have to judge to run "this" page-types or "that" page-types, and
to check if this page-types is uptodate, and if the .config is in sync
with the running kernel image..

An in-kernel dump_page() makes life easier.

Thanks,
Fengguang


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