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From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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: [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup code that think bio_alloc with __GFP_WAIT can fail
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:34:51 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904151034.52750.knikanth@suse.de> (raw)

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.

Thanks
Nikanth

             reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-15  5:04 Nikanth Karthikesan [this message]
2009-04-15  6:55 ` [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup code that think bio_alloc with __GFP_WAIT can fail Jens Axboe

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