linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: blk_queue_bounce

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 21:29:59 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: blk_queue_bounce_limits can actually sleep

On Mon, May 19 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] block: blk_queue_bounce_limits can actually sleep
> 
> blk_queue_bounce_limit can call init_emergency_isa_pool, which
> does sleeping allocations... document it as such by adding
> might_sleep() to the driver

Isn't that superflous, as mempool_create() -> kmalloc(..., __GFP_WAIT)
ends up spewing that warning anyway?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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