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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dozens of sysbot reports
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:11:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjevysNdRU18Fs--ZciCd+DTDMFWptZcFBqbBa3Zco38w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wiwydQEhbZCkUhwbDZp_CdMJrOtRwTThA5bT5C7b+grnA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:08 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> It had just added __GFP_NOWARN to hide the fact that it did crazy
> allocations and just wanted the craziest ones to fail silently.

.. and yes, we can make __GFP_NOWARN limit that WARN_ON_ONCE() too,
but the whole point of this really was to actually find people who
simply didn't check their arguments. So I'd rather add a few sanity
checks, than say "__GFP_NOWARN silences the sanity check too".

              Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-03 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-03 20:44 dozens of sysbot reports Eric Dumazet
2021-09-03 22:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-03 23:00   ` Eric Dumazet
2021-09-03 23:08     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-03 23:11       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-09-07 10:18   ` David Laight

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