linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de, muli@...ibm.com,
	asit.k.mallick@...el.com, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, ashok.raj@...el.com, shaohua.li@...el.com,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > If the only option is to panic then something's busted.  If it's network IO
> > then there should be a way of dropping the frame.  If it's disk IO then we
> > should report the failure and cause an IO error.
> 
> An block IO error is basically catastrophic for the system too. There isn't really
> a concept of "temporary IO error that will resolve itself" concept in Unix.

In Unix? You mean the block layer cannot handle a I/O error? Not too 
familiar with it but from what I can tell an I/O operation can be aborted 
in the request function.

> There are still lots of users of pci_map_single() that don't check the return
> value unfortunately.   That is mostly in old drivers; it is generally
> picked on in reviews now. But then there is no guarantee that these rarely
> used likely untested error handling paths actually work.

Then we need to review the code and clean these up.
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