linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/vmalloc: Print a warning message first on failure

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Message-Id: <20210510185238.787adc7378bc6d82262399d2@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 10 May 2021 18:52:38 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...ymobile.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/vmalloc: Print a warning message first on
 failure

On Mon, 10 May 2021 12:33:42 +0200 Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com> wrote:

> Please find the v4 version of the patch that is in question:
> 
> >From 7e27e4ac8f299ae244e9e0e90e0292ae2c08d37d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>
> Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 23:41:21 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH v4 1/1] mm/vmalloc: Print a warning message first on failure

Added, thanks.

Matthew has a point of course, but I do think that any console driver
which tries to allocate memory within the cotext of printk() is so
pathetic that it isn't worth compromising core code to cater for it...