On Mon, Jul 06 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: >> +static struct bdi_work *bdi_alloc_work(struct super_block *sb, long nr_pages, >> + enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode) >> +{ >> + struct bdi_work *work; >> + >> + work = kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC); >> + if (work) >> + bdi_work_init(work, sb, nr_pages, sync_mode); >> - wb_start_writeback(&bdi->wb, sb, nr_pages, sync_mode); >> + return work; >> +} > > Since the caller of this function handles kmalloc failure gracefully, > should we also pass __GFP_NOWARN flag to kmalloc() here, in order to > avoid large and scary no-memory complaints? Sure, it can't hurt. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html