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Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mm/numa: trivial fix on typo and error message

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 02:00:10PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 11:35:28PM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>> When allocating pg_data in alloc_node_data(), it will try to allocate from
>> local node first and then from any node. If it fails at the second trial,
>> it means there is not available memory on any node.
>> 
>> This patch fixes the error message and correct one typo.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/mm/numa.c | 6 +++---
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
>> index 4366242356c5..3e9110b34147 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
>> @@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ static void __init alloc_node_data(int nid)
>>  		nd_pa = __memblock_alloc_base(nd_size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES,
>>  					      MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE);
>>  		if (!nd_pa) {
>> -			pr_err("Cannot find %zu bytes in node %d\n",
>> -			       nd_size, nid);
>> +			pr_err("Cannot find %zu bytes in any node\n",
>> +			       nd_size);
>>  			return;
>>  		}
>
>Actually, the best would be:
>
>	pr_err("Cannot find %zu bytes in any node (initial node: %d)\n", nd_size, nid);
>
>or something like that. This way you say
>
>a) the initial node %nid failed
>b) the fallback to any node failed too
>
>so that people trying to debug code can have the complete info in the
>logs.
>

You are right, your message is more clear.

I would send out v2 with this change.

Thanks :-)

>-- 
>Regards/Gruss,
>    Boris.
>
>Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

-- 
Wei Yang
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mm/numa: trivial fix on typo and error message Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-13 14:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mm/numa: trivial fix on typo and error message Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 04:00 +0100

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