linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/vmalloc: don't warning vmalloc allocation failure twice

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Message-ID: <522575C5.7050108@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:38:13 +0800
From:	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/vmalloc: don't warning vmalloc allocation failure
 twice

On 09/03/2013 11:00 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> Don't warning twice in __vmalloc_area_node and __vmalloc_node_range if
> __vmalloc_area_node allocation failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

OK, I missed the warning in __vmalloc_area_node(), so you are right.
You can just revert the commit 46c001a2753f47ffa621131baa3409e636515347.

> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index d78d117..e3ec8b4 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>  
>  	addr = __vmalloc_area_node(area, gfp_mask, prot, node, caller);
>  	if (!addr)
> -		goto fail;
> +		return NULL;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * In this function, newly allocated vm_struct has VM_UNINITIALIZED
> 


-- 
Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei
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