Neil Brown wrote:
On Tuesday November 8, nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Possibly it could go into struct io_context?
My quick reading of the code says that we could have to
allocate the struct right there in generic_make_request, and I don't
think we can be certain that such an allocation will succeed.
Code that uses io_context can limp along if it doesn't exist.
The new generic_make_request needs this bio_list to be present
or it cannot do it's job.
You can ask for the io context without having a request. However,
there is nothing like a mempool for them so code really should be
able to limp along without them.
I guess it would be silly to require such an allocation to succeed
here, because the block layer is pretty free of OOM deadlocks.
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