linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Intel-IOMMU: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in init

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Message-ID: <20180120194004.GC28161@8bytes.org>
Date:   Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:40:05 +0100
From:   Jörg Rödel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel-IOMMU: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in init_dmars()

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 03:55:37PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> Do you need any more background information for this general
> transformation pattern?

No.

> Do you find the Linux allocation failure report insufficient for this
> use case?

Yes, because it can't tell me what the code was trying to allocate.