mm: print more details for bad_page()
authorDave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:52:49 +0000 (15:52 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:36:50 +0000 (16:36 -0800)
bad_page() is cool in that it prints out a bunch of data about the page.
But, I can never remember which page flags are good and which are bad,
or whether ->index or ->mapping is required to be NULL.

This patch allows bad/dump_page() callers to specify a string about why
they are dumping the page and adds explanation strings to a number of
places.  It also adds a 'bad_flags' argument to bad_page(), which it
then dumps out separately from the flags which are actually set.

This way, the messages will show specifically why the page was bad,
*specifically* which flags it is complaining about, if it was a page
flag combination which was the problem.

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Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
mm/balloon_compaction.c
mm/memory.c
mm/memory_hotplug.c
mm/page_alloc.c

Simple merge
Simple merge
diff --cc mm/memory.c
Simple merge
Simple merge
diff --cc mm/page_alloc.c
Simple merge