Re: [PATCH] scsi: replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL for sdev allocation

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:11:31AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 19:48 +0100, Benjamin Block wrote:
> > We had a test-report where, under memory pressure, adding LUNs to the
> > systems would fail (the tests add LUNs strictly in sequence):
> 
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> There are two more instances of GFP_ATOMIC in scsi_scan.c. Have you verified
> whether or not it is safe to change these into GFP_KERNEL too?
> 

No, I was lazy, but I can take a look tomorrow and fix them up as well
if they are similar to scsi_alloc_sdev().

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