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On 5/3/21 11:20 AM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
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>> That's the thing: memory failure should be exceedingly rare for this.
>> Therefore, just fail out entirely (which I don't expect we'll likely
>> ever see), instead of doing all this weird stuff to try to continue
>> on if you cannot allocate a single page. If you are in that case, the
>> system is not in a state that is going to run your dma p2p setup well
>> anyway.
>>
>> I think it's *less* complexity to allocate up front, fail early if
>> allocation fails, and then not have to deal with these really odd
>> quirks at the lower levels.
>>
> 
> I don't see how it's all that weird. We're skipping a warning if we
> can't allocate memory to calculate part of the message. It's really not
> necessary. If the memory really can't be allocated then something else
> will fail, but we really don't need to fail here because we couldn't
> print a verbose warning message.
> 

Well, I really dislike the result we have in this particular patch, but
I won't stand in the way of progress if that's how you really are going
to do it.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA