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From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] dio: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:35:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904151035.53240.knikanth@suse.de> (raw)

Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT.
GFP_KERNEL implies __GFP_WAIT.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

---

diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index da258e7..05763bb 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -307,8 +307,6 @@ dio_bio_alloc(struct dio *dio, struct block_device *bdev,
 	struct bio *bio;
 
 	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nr_vecs);
-	if (bio == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	bio->bi_bdev = bdev;
 	bio->bi_sector = first_sector;


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