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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/memory_hotplug: quieting offline operation
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Le 12/12/2020 à 16:04, Souptick Joarder a écrit :
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 8:32 PM Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> On PowerPC, when dymically removing memory from a system we can see in the console a
>> lot of messages like this:
>> [ 186.575389] Offlined Pages 4096
>
> Is it specific to PowerPC ?

No, this applies to all architectures, but this is surfacing a bit more on
PowerPC where the memory block size is set to 256MB currently by the firmware.

>
>>
>> This message is displayed on each LMB (256MB) removed, which means that we
>> removing 1TB of memory, this message is displayed 4096 times.
>>
>> Moving it to DEBUG to not flood the console.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> index b44d4c7ba73b..c47a53a16782 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> @@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
>>
>> /* Mark all sections offline and remove free pages from the buddy. */
>> __offline_isolated_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
>> - pr_info("Offlined Pages %ld\n", nr_pages);
>> + pr_debug("Offlined Pages %ld\n", nr_pages);
>>
>> /*
>> * The memory sections are marked offline, and the pageblock flags
>> --
>> 2.29.2
>>
>>

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