Re: [PATCH] Intel-IOMMU: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in init_dmars()

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Sat Jan 20 2018 - 10:02:24 EST


>> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 13:51:49 +0100
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>> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
>>
>> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
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>> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> NACK on this one and the other two IOMMU patches you sent.

Do you need any more background information for this general transformation pattern?


> The messages give the user/developer useful information about what the memory
> that failed to allocate would have been used for.

Do you find the Linux allocation failure report insufficient for this use case?

Regards,
Markus