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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/9] mm/page_alloc: add informative debugging message in page_outside_zone_boundaries()
On 02/01/2013 04:29 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 16:28:48 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>>> + if (ret)
>>> + pr_debug("page %lu outside zone [ %lu - %lu ]\n",
>>> + pfn, start_pfn, start_pfn + sp);
>>> +
>>> return ret;
>>> }
>>
>> As this condition leads to a VM_BUG_ON(), "pr_debug" seems rather wimpy
>> and I doubt if we need to be concerned about flooding the console.
>>
>> I'll switch it to pr_err.
>
> otoh, as nobody has ever hit that VM_BUG_ON() (yes?), do we really need
> the patch?

I've hit this bug while developing some code that moves pages between zones.

As it helped me debug that issue with my own code, I could see how
another developer might be helped by it.



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