[PATCH] drm/panfrost: Quiet shrinker messages

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 23:06:02 UTC 2019


On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 2:46 PM Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 10:13 AM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > As brought up on IRC, logging a vague and unattributed message for a
> > normal and expected operation looks a bit spammy. Use a dev_* variant
> > to clarify it as a driver message, and downgrade the level to debug to
> > avoid cluttering up end users' logs.
>
> If it was good enough for msm, it's not good enough for us?
>

I suppose there are differing opinions about shrinker spam.. I kinda
like to know when it is happening, OTOH it is a much more normal
situation on devices with less RAM or android..

is there a ratelimited version of dev_dbg(), though?  You might want that..

BR,
-R


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