Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: lower the printk loglevel for __dump_page messages | From | Anshuman Khandual <> | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:27:24 +0530 |
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On 11/16/2018 02:00 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > __dump_page messages use KERN_EMERG resp. KERN_ALERT loglevel (this is > the case since 2004). Most callers of this function are really detecting > a critical page state and BUG right after. On the other hand the > function is called also from contexts which just want to inform about > the page state and those would rather not disrupt logs that much (e.g. > some systems route these messages to the normal console). > > Reduce the loglevel to KERN_WARNING to make dump_page easier to reuse > for other contexts while those messages will still make it to the kernel > log in most setups. Even if the loglevel setup filters warnings away > those paths that are really critical already print the more targeted > error or panic and that should make it to the kernel log. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
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