Re: [Patch v2 3/4] mm/page_alloc.c: pass all bad reasons to bad_page()

[David Hildenbrand]

On 20.01.20 11:22, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 20-01-20 11:04:14, Wei Yang wrote:
>> Now we can pass all bad reasons to __dump_page().
> 
> And we do we want to do that? The dump of the page will tell us the
> whole story so a single and the most important reason sounds like a
> better implementation. The code is also more subtle because each caller
> of the function has to be aware of how many reasons there might be.
> Not to mention that you need a room for 5 pointers on the stack and this
> and page allocator might be called from deeper call chains.
> 

+1, I don't think we want/need this


-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb