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Re: scsi: ufs: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ufshcd_memory_alloc()

From	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject	Re: scsi: ufs: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ufshcd_memory_alloc()
Date	2017-08-26 13:20 +0200
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>> PS: ufshcd_memory_alloc() also does some DMA coherent memory allocation 
>> (via dmam_alloc_coherent() APIs) and tries to print out the message on 
>> allocation failure. Although i don't know "out of memory" messages will 
>> be printed out by dmam_alloc_coherent() APIs or not. If it does print it 
>> out then we might want to remove our local memory allocation failure log 
>> messages.
> 
> Basically most everything that has a gfp_t argument does a
> dump_stack() on OOM unless __GFP_NOWARN is specified by that gfp_t.

How do you think about to continue the clarification for this aspect
of the involved programming interfaces?

Regards,
Markus

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