Re: [PATCH] Fix two potential mem leaks in MPT Fusion (mpt_attach())

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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:26:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Why on earth is that using GFP_ATOMIC?  This function later goes on to
> create procfs files and such things.

Seems fairly common in driver initialisation code.  I removed three
instances of this in the advansys driver.

> y'know, we could have a debug option which will spit warnings if someone
> does a !__GFP_WAIT allocation while !in_atomic() (only works if
> CONFIG_PREEMPT).  
> 
> But please, make it depend on !CONFIG_AKPM.  I shudder to think about all
> the stuff it would pick up.

Seems like you'd get a lot of false positives.  How about a call:

slab_warn_about_atomic_allocs();

right before calling the initcalls, and then

slab_stop_warning_about_atomic_allocs();

after calling them?  That should give people a lot to chew on for a few
months.  Obviously, you would need to not warn about allocations from
interrupt context, as you say above.

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