linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup code that think bio_alloc with __GFP

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Message-ID: <20090415065520.GR5178@kernel.dk>
Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:55:21 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, tytso@....edu,
	adilger@....com, Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	xfs-masters@....sgi.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup code that think bio_alloc with __GFP_WAIT
	can fail

On Wed, Apr 15 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> bio_alloc will not fail when __GFP_WAIT is specified in the gfp_flags.
> See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/14/198 for the discussion. But this
> not documented and there are places where there is unwanted code to
> handle bio_alloc failure even when __GFP_WAIT is specified. This patch
> set documents this and cleans up various callers who assume bio_alloc
> can fail even with __GFP_WAIT.

I added your patches 2-7, I substituted 1/7 with one I did myself that
uses proper kerneldoc annotation. Thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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