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xfs: improve error message when we can't allocate memory for xfs_buf

Message ID 20200221154132.GQ9506@magnolia (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Series xfs: improve error message when we can't allocate memory for xfs_buf | expand

Commit Message

Darrick J. Wong Feb. 21, 2020, 3:41 p.m. UTC
From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

If xfs_buf_get_map can't allocate enough memory for the buffer it's
trying to create, it'll cough up an error about not being able to
allocate "pagesn".  That's not particularly helpful (and if we're really
out of memory the message is very spammy) so change the message to tell
us how many pages were actually requested, and ratelimit it too.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig Feb. 21, 2020, 3:49 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 07:41:32AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> 
> If xfs_buf_get_map can't allocate enough memory for the buffer it's
> trying to create, it'll cough up an error about not being able to
> allocate "pagesn".  That's not particularly helpful (and if we're really
> out of memory the message is very spammy) so change the message to tell
> us how many pages were actually requested, and ratelimit it too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index 0ceaa172545b..f8e4fee206ff 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -727,8 +727,9 @@  xfs_buf_get_map(
 	if (!bp->b_addr) {
 		error = _xfs_buf_map_pages(bp, flags);
 		if (unlikely(error)) {
-			xfs_warn(target->bt_mount,
-				"%s: failed to map pagesn", __func__);
+			xfs_warn_ratelimited(target->bt_mount,
+				"%s: failed to map %u pages", __func__,
+				bp->b_page_count);
 			xfs_buf_relse(bp);
 			return error;
 		}