Re: [PATCH 09/11] bcache: use kmalloc to allocate bio in bch_data_verify()

From: Ming Lei
Date: Fri Apr 21 2017 - 14:31:15 EST


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:38 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This function allocates a bio, then a collection
> of pages. It copes with failure.
>
> It currently uses a mempool() to allocate the bio,
> but alloc_page() to allocate the pages. These fail
> in different ways, so the usage is inconsistent.
>
> Change the bio_clone() to bio_clone_kmalloc()
> so that no pool is used either for the bio or the pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by : Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks,
Ming Lei