Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: don't check for failure from mempool_alloc()

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On 04/10/2017 04:07 AM, NeilBrown wrote:

mempool_alloc() cannot fail if the gfp flags allow it to
sleep, and both GFP_KERNEL and GFP_NOIO allows for sleeping.

So rrpc_move_valid_pages() and rrpc_make_rq() don't need to
test the return value.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c b/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c
index e00b1d7b976f..34f5f1cc9452 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c
@@ -318,10 +318,6 @@ static int rrpc_move_valid_pages(struct rrpc *rrpc, struct rrpc_block *rblk)
 	}

 	page = mempool_alloc(rrpc->page_pool, GFP_NOIO);
-	if (!page) {
-		bio_put(bio);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}

 	while ((slot = find_first_zero_bit(rblk->invalid_pages,
 					    nr_sec_per_blk)) < nr_sec_per_blk) {
@@ -1007,11 +1003,6 @@ static blk_qc_t rrpc_make_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 	}

 	rqd = mempool_alloc(rrpc->rq_pool, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!rqd) {
-		pr_err_ratelimited("rrpc: not able to queue bio.");
-		bio_io_error(bio);
-		return BLK_QC_T_NONE;
-	}
 	memset(rqd, 0, sizeof(struct nvm_rq));

 	err = rrpc_submit_io(rrpc, bio, rqd, NVM_IOTYPE_NONE);


This is great!, Thanks Neil.  Applied for 4.12.



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