Re: x86_64: remove debug code from arch_add_memory()

[Gary Hade]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:30:53AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Gary Hade <garyhade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Gets rid of dmesg spam created during physical memory hot-add which
> > will very likely confuse users.  The change removes what appears to
> > be debugging code which I assume was unintentionally included in:
> >   x86: arch/x86/mm/init_64.c printk fixes
> >   commit 10f22dde556d1ed41d55355d1fb8ad495f9810c8
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/mm/init_64.c |    1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Gary!
> 
> Note, i changed it slightly: instead of removing it completely i 
> changed it to WARN_ON_ONCE(ret), to show us when __add_pages() fails. 
> (which is what the original intention was there)

No problem!  That's obviously better.

> This does not trigger in your tests, right?

Correct.  I just did a memory hot-add with that change and the
WARN_ON_ONCE(ret) did not write anything to dmesg.

Thanks,
Gary

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