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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL for sdev
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From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To:     Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
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Date:   Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:11:31 -0800
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On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 19:48 +-0100, Benjamin Block wrote:
+AD4 We had a test-report where, under memory pressure, adding LUNs to the
+AD4 systems would fail (the tests add LUNs strictly in sequence):

Hi Benjamin,

There are two more instances of GFP+AF8-ATOMIC in scsi+AF8-scan.c. Have you verified
whether or not it is safe to change these into GFP+AF8-KERNEL too?

Thanks,

Bart.