The patch titled sfc: modify allocation error message has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is sfc-modify-allocation-error-message.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sfc: modify allocation error message From: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> Change error message when alloc_cpumask_var fails. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/sfc/efx.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/sfc/efx.c~sfc-modify-allocation-error-message drivers/net/sfc/efx.c --- a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c~sfc-modify-allocation-error-message +++ a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c @@ -857,9 +857,9 @@ static int efx_wanted_rx_queues(void) int count; int cpu; - if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&core_mask, GFP_KERNEL)) { + if (unlikely(!alloc_cpumask_var(&core_mask, GFP_KERNEL))) { printk(KERN_WARNING - "efx.c: allocation failure, irq balancing hobbled\n"); + "sfc: RSS disabled due to allocation failure\n"); return 1; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from travis@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch sfc-modify-allocation-error-message.patch sysrq-include-interrupth-instead-of-irqh.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html