netdev - Re: [PATCH] rhashtable: Better error message on allocation failure

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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:35:36 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc: 'Kent Overstreet' <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Herbert Xu
 <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rhashtable: Better error message on allocation failure

On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 15:23:49 +0000 David Laight wrote:
> > +	new_tbl = bucket_table_alloc(ht, size, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN);
> > +	if (new_tbl == NULL) {
> > +		WARN("rhashtable bucket table allocation failure for %ps",  
> 
> Won't WARN() be a panic on systems with PANICK_ON_WARN set?

Yes, that's problematic :(
Let's leave out the GFP_NOWARN and add a pr_warn() instead of
the WARN()?