On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:48:40PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > -                           WARNING("Failed to reserve huge pages in "
> > -                                   "hugetlbfs_morecore()\n");
> > +                           WARNING("Failed to allocate %ld huge pages "
> > +                                   "for heap\n", delta/blocksize);
> 
> I'd prefer to keep the reserve terminology here. It indicates a
> fairly well-defined failpoint. So simply s/allocate/reserve/ in your
> line.

OK.


> Technically speaking, heap is also inaccurate. It's really for any
> dynamic allocation, not necessarily just for the heap.

I'm not sure what you mean.  Can more than malloc call the morecore hook?
I have always associated malloc with "heap".


> > -                   WARNING("Unmapping failed in hugetlbfs_morecore(): "
> > +                   WARNING("Heap shrink unmapping failed: "
> >                             "%s\n", strerror(errno));

> > -                           WARNING("Couldn't truncate hugetlbfs file in "
> > -                                   "hugetlbfs_morecore(): %s\n",
> > -                                   strerror(errno));
> > +                           WARNING("Couldn't truncate hugetlbfs file for"
> > +                                   " heap shrink: %s\n", strerror(errno));
> 
> I think these last two can still be phrased better.
> 
> How about:
> 
> "Unmapping failed while shriking heap: "
> 
> and
> 
> "Could not truncate hugetlbfs file to shrink heap: "
> 
> ?

OK.


New patch soon.


Dean


Dean Luick
Cray Inc.

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