From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
tytso@mit.edu, adilger@sun.com,
Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup code that think bio_alloc with __GFP_WAIT can fail
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:55:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090415065520.GR5178@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904151034.52750.knikanth@suse.de>
On Wed, Apr 15 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> bio_alloc will not fail when __GFP_WAIT is specified in the gfp_flags.
> See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/14/198 for the discussion. But this
> not documented and there are places where there is unwanted code to
> handle bio_alloc failure even when __GFP_WAIT is specified. This patch
> set documents this and cleans up various callers who assume bio_alloc
> can fail even with __GFP_WAIT.
I added your patches 2-7, I substituted 1/7 with one I did myself that
uses proper kerneldoc annotation. Thanks!
--
Jens Axboe
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2009-04-15 5:04 [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup code that think bio_alloc with __GFP_WAIT can fail Nikanth Karthikesan
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