On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:49:05AM -0500, Adam Litke wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 11:33 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > +         char *size = map_size[MAP_BSS];
> > > +         if (map_size[MAP_DATA])
> > > +                 size = map_size[MAP_DATA];
> > > +         if (map_size[MAP_DATA] != map_size[MAP_BSS])
> > > +                 WARNING("data and bss remapped together in %s\n", size);
> > 
> > ouch, this is a curious one. It's actually pretty bad if the user
> > expects these things to be mapped different. However, our default level
> > is ERROR, not WARNING so this message is not displayed unless there is
> > at least one -v. It's not an error either though hmmm... Not much that
> > can be done about it I guess.
> 
> I'll be fixing this with my new verbosity levels fixes.  We will have
> the following levels:
> 
> ERROR - Unrecoverable, application will terminate
> WARNING - Recoverable but expected semantics will be altered
> INFO - Detailed information about normal operation
> DEBUG - Diagnostic information with a potential run-time acquisition
> cost.
> 
> We will then switch the default verbosity level to WARNING.
> 

Good stuff. In that case, these things can remain as warnings and you
catch them later when the additional verbosity level.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab

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