vmscan: print shrink_slab symbol name on negative shrinker objects
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:29 +0000 (15:23 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:59:15 +0000 (08:59 -0700)
When a shrinker has a negative number of objects to delete, the symbol
name of the shrinker should be printed, not shrink_slab.  This also makes
the error message slightly more informative.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c

index e70fae3..f4619c6 100644 (file)
@@ -214,8 +214,9 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1);
                shrinker->nr += delta;
                if (shrinker->nr < 0) {
-                       printk(KERN_ERR "%s: nr=%ld\n",
-                                       __func__, shrinker->nr);
+                       printk(KERN_ERR "shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to "
+                              "delete nr=%ld\n",
+                              shrinker->shrink, shrinker->nr);
                        shrinker->nr = max_pass;
                }