From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>,
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block/ps3vram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ps3vram_cache_init()
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 08:13:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1502118820.2219.19.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6b5f2f0-bbfe-8471-d8fc-e236ea0b1ea4@infradead.org>
On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 08:10 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On 08/07/2017 03:52 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
> NACK
>
> When a user asks me for help I would certainly like to get
> 'Could not allocate cache tags' as apposed to nothing, since
> the return value of ps3vram_cache_init() is not checked.
You still get a dump_stack on alloc failure.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-07 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-07 10:52 [PATCH] block/ps3vram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ps3vram_cache_init() SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-07 15:10 ` Geoff Levand
2017-08-07 15:13 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-08-07 16:27 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-07 18:28 ` Geoff Levand
2017-08-07 18:34 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-07 18:49 ` Geoff Levand
2017-08-07 19:04 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-07 20:17 ` Geoff Levand
2017-08-08 8:23 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-08 2:13 ` Michael Ellerman
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