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From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 23:41:18 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] bcache: use kmalloc to allocate bio in bch_data_verify()
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:38 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> wrote:
> This function allocates a bio, then a collection
> of pages.  It copes with failure.
>
> It currently uses a mempool() to allocate the bio,
> but alloc_page() to allocate the pages.  These fail
> in different ways, so the usage is inconsistent.
>
> Change the bio_clone() to bio_clone_kmalloc()
> so that no pool is used either for the bio or the pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

Reviewed-by : Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>


Thanks,
Ming Lei