Re: [PATCH] vmemmap, memory_hotplug: fallback to base pages for vmmap

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 11-07-17 13:26:23, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 04:25:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Ohh, scratch that. The patch is bogus. I have completely missed that
> > vmemmap_populate_hugepages already falls back to
> > vmemmap_populate_basepages. I have to revisit the bug report I have
> > received to see what happened apart from the allocation warning. Maybe
> > we just want to silent that warning.
> 
> Yep, this should be fixed in 8e2cdbcb86b0 ("x86-64: fall back to
> regular page vmemmap on allocation failure").
> 
> I figure it's good to keep some sort of warning there, though, as it
> could have performance implications when we fall back to base pages.

Yeah, but I am not really sure the allocation warning is the right thing
here because it is just too verbose. If you consider that we will get
this warning for each memory section (128MB or 2GB)... I guess the
existing
pr_warn_once("vmemmap: falling back to regular page backing\n");

or maybe make it pr_warn should be enough. What do you think?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs