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From: haver <haver@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jörg-Stephan Vogt" <jsvogt@de.ibm.com>,
	"Michael Jung" <MIJUNG@de.ibm.com>,
	"Michael Rüttger" <michael@ibmra.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] GenWQE: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in genwqe_user_vmap()
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:42:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6aa7eaf36fe5fff4849f4eec4d62051a@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <feee4e15-8230-6124-2a6d-6d1090ce1813@users.sourceforge.net>

On 2018-01-08 14:24, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>>> @@ -593,7 +593,6 @@ int genwqe_user_vmap(struct genwqe_dev *cd, 
>>> struct
>>> dma_mapping *m, void *uaddr,
>>>                     sizeof(struct page *) + 
>>> sizeof(dma_addr_t),
>>>                     GFP_KERNEL);
>>>      if (!m->page_list) {
>>> -        dev_err(&pci_dev->dev, "err: alloc page_list 
>>> failed\n");
>> 
>> Are there different printouts which cover this?
> 
> Is this error message redundant?
> 
> 
>> I mean the debug printout is not appearing all the time,
>> it must be enabled, if I remember correctly.
> 
> Would you like to clarify corresponding configuration possibilities any 
> more?
> 
> 
>> So why do you suggest to remove it?
> 
> Can the Linux allocation failure report be sufficient for this use case 
> already?
> 
> Regards,
> Markus

According to Dans message in parallel, it should be redundant and I am 
fine with removing it.

Acked-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-08 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-08  9:40 [PATCH 0/3] GenWQE: Adjustments for some function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-08  9:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] GenWQE: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in genwqe_user_vmap() SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-08 12:45   ` haver
2018-01-08 13:23     ` Dan Carpenter
2018-01-08 13:40       ` haver
2018-01-08 13:24     ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-08 13:42       ` haver [this message]
2018-01-08  9:42 ` [PATCH 2/3] GenWQE: Fix a typo in two comments SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-08 12:47   ` haver
2018-01-08  9:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] GenWQE: Adjust 12 checks for null pointers SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-08 12:50   ` haver
2018-01-08 13:50     ` [3/3] " SF Markus Elfring

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