On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 4:49 PM Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/30/23 02:06, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > > Check if adding pages to clone bio fails and if bail out. > > Nope. The code retries with direct reclaim until it succeeds. Which is very > suspicious... It is not related to bio_add_page() failure. It is used to avoid a race condition when two processes are depleting the mempool simultaneously. IIUC I don't think page merge may happen for dm-crypt, so is __bio_add_page() good enough? I'm working on this code too, using __bio_add_page() would make my patch easier. > > > > > This way we can mark bio_add_pages as __must_check. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> > > With the commit message fixed, > > Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > -- > Damien Le Moal > Western Digital Research > >