mm: add a gfp-translate script to help understand page allocation failure reports
The page allocation failure messages include a line that looks like
page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x4020
The mode is easy to translate but irritating for the lazy and a bit error
prone. This patch adds a very simple helper script gfp-translate for the
mode: portion of the page allocation failure messages. An example usage
looks like
mel@machina:~/linux-2.6 $ scripts/gfp-translate 0x4020
Source: /home/mel/linux-2.6
Parsing: 0x4020
#define __GFP_HIGH (0x20) /* Should access emergency pools? */
#define __GFP_COMP (0x4000) /* Add compound page metadata */
The script is not a work of art but it has come in handy for me a few
times so I thought I would share.
[[email protected]: clarify an error message]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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