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Message-ID: <ead577ac-a36b-dfc4-9f2c-3d5f34495d78@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:06:20 +0100
From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To: Ladislav Michl <ladis@...ux-mips.org>, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/3] mfd/omap-usb-tll: Delete two error messages for a failed
memory allocation in usbtll_omap_probe()
>>> Now, if probe function calls devm_kzalloc two times and one of them fails,
>>> you cannot easily say which one without looking at assembly listing.
>>
>> Will this situation change with any other implementation for such backtraces?
>
> How much that situation changes depends mainly on that very person who is
> sending bugreport and his/her ability and willigness to eventually change
> said implementation.
Have you got any more influence on the selection?
Which variant was applied for your example?
> In the other words your question (presumably) expects a world of
> ideal backtraces, which is (so far) rarely the case.
I assume that further software evolution will matter.
Does an article like “The ORCs are coming” (by Jonathan Corbet from 2017-07-20)
point information out which is also useful for this issue here?
https://lwn.net/Articles/728339/
> Anyway, if we agree to change the way we allocate driver data here,
> the issue this debate is about will no longer exist.
Does your update suggestion contain still any additional error messages for
memory allocation failures?
Regards,
Markus
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