From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Subhash Jadavani <subhashj@codeaurora.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
"James E. J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Vinayak Holikatti <vinholikatti@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checking error messages for failed memory allocations
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:05:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493233549.18659.33.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6da1799-02a1-b1dc-edcb-a2ea5563b51a@users.sourceforge.net>
On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 20:50 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Basically most everything that has a gfp_t argument does a
> > dump_stack() on OOM unless __GFP_NOWARN is specified by that gfp_t.
>
> How do you think about to improve any programming interface documentation
> around such a function property?
Feel free to submit documentation patches.
> Are there any special checks needed for function implementations
> which can pass the flag “__GFP_NOWARN”?
No.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-26 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-25 20:24 [PATCH 0/3] SCSI-UFSHCD: Fine-tuning for two function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-25 20:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] scsi: ufs: Use devm_kcalloc() in ufshcd_memory_alloc() SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-26 17:52 ` Subhash Jadavani
2017-04-25 20:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] scsi: ufs: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation " SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-26 17:57 ` Subhash Jadavani
2017-04-26 18:11 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-26 18:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Joe Perches
2017-04-26 18:50 ` Checking error messages for failed memory allocations SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-26 19:05 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-04-26 19:14 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-26 11:17 ` scsi: ufs: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ufshcd_memory_alloc() SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-25 20:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] scsi: ufs: Delete an unnecessary return statement in ufshcd_exception_event_handler() SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-26 17:59 ` Subhash Jadavani
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