[dm-devel] [PATCH 4/7] dm: introduce dm_kvmalloc

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Mon Jul 6 12:42:12 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 04:59:54PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
[..]
> Index: linux-4.1/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-4.1.orig/drivers/md/dm-table.c	2015-07-02 19:21:16.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-4.1/drivers/md/dm-table.c	2015-07-02 19:28:18.000000000 +0200
> @@ -131,6 +131,43 @@ static int setup_btree_index(unsigned in
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +void *dm_kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
> +{
> +	void *p;
> +	unsigned uninitialized_var(noio_flag);
> +
> +	/* vmalloc doesn't support no-wait allocations */
> +	WARN_ON(!(gfp & __GFP_WAIT));
> +

Should this WARN_ON() be moved after kmalloc(). This should be triggered
only if we use vmalloc().

Thanks
Vivek




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