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Commit dbe43d4d authored by Jaewon Kim's avatar Jaewon Kim Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: cma: print allocation failure reason and bitmap status

There are many reasons of CMA allocation failure such as EBUSY, ENOMEM,
EINTR.  But we did not know error reason so far.  This patch prints the
error value.

Additionally if CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG is enabled, this patch shows bitmap
status to know available pages.  Actually CMA internally tries on all
available regions because some regions can be failed because of EBUSY.
Bitmap status is useful to know in detail on both ENONEM and EBUSY;

 ENOMEM: not tried at all because of no available region
         it could be too small total region or could be fragmentation issue
 EBUSY:  tried some region but all failed

This is an ENOMEM example with this patch.

    [2:   Binder:714_1:  744] cma: cma_alloc: alloc failed, req-size: 256 pages, ret: -12

If CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG is enabled, avabile pages also will be shown as
concatenated size@position format.  So 4@572 means that there are 4
available pages at 572 position starting from 0 position.

    [2:   Binder:714_1:  744] cma: number of available pages: 4@572+7@585+7@601+8@632+38@730+166@1114+127@1921=> 357 free of 2048 total pages

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485909785-3952-1-git-send-email-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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