Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: blk-tag: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in __blk_queue_init_tags

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Jan 24 2018 - 22:44:37 EST


On 1/24/18 8:38 PM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> After checking all possible call chains to kmalloc here,
> my tool finds that kmalloc is never called in atomic context.
> Thus GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary, and it can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.
>
> This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself.

These two look OK to me, mostly. One issue is that blk_queue_init_tags()
can be used to resize tags, in which case it's called with the
queue lock held. Nobody is using it like that anymore, though. So I'd
prefer if you did a v2 of this patch, and include a correction to that
comment.

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Jens Axboe