linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] lightnvm: pblk: check for failed mempool alloc.

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Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:12:14 +0200
From:   Javier González <jg@...htnvm.io>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Matias Bjørling <matias@...xlabs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] lightnvm: pblk: check for failed mempool alloc.

> On 6 Sep 2017, at 17.09, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> wrote:
> 
> On 09/06/2017 09:08 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:01:01PM +0200, Javier González wrote:
>>> Check for failed mempool allocations and act accordingly.
>> 
>> Are you sure it is needed? Quoting from mempool_alloc()s Documentation:
>> "[...] Note that due to preallocation, this function *never* fails when called
>> from process contexts. (it might fail if called from an IRQ context.) [...]"
> 
> It's not needed, mempool() will never fail if __GFP_WAIT is set in the
> mask. The use case here is GFP_KERNEL, which does include __GFP_WAIT.

Thanks for the clarification. Do you just drop the patch, or do you want
me to re-send the series?

I see that I do this other places, I'll clean it up for next window.

Thanks,
Javier

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