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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org, dyoung@redhat.com, jroedel@suse.de,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, bp@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v4] Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if crashkernel low memory reserving failed
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:08:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150922170850.d46e58d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150923000255.GA2569@dhcp-17-102.nay.redhat.com>

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:02:55 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> wrote:

> > 
> > >  	}
> > >  
> > >  	low_base = memblock_find_in_range(low_size, (1ULL<<32),
> > >  					low_size, alignment);
> > >  
> > >  	if (!low_base) {
> > > -		if (!auto_set)
> > > -			pr_info("crashkernel low reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
> > > -
> > > -		return;
> > > +		pr_info("crashkernel low reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
> > 
> > That's not a terribly useful message.  If kdump is now unavailable and
> > the operator needs to take some remedial action then we should inform
> > them of this.
> > 
> > Also, such a message should have higher severity than KERN_INFO?
> 
> Yes, how about KERN_ERR? It's an unexpected result from kdump side
> though it doesn't harm the normal kernel.

Sure, KERN_ERR is good.  Along with more useful message text.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-23  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-22 11:48 Baoquan He
2015-09-22 13:50 ` Baoquan He
2015-09-22 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2015-09-23  0:02   ` Baoquan He
2015-09-23  0:08     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-09-23  0:20       ` Baoquan He

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