Re: vhost/scsi: Delete error messages for failed memory allocations in five functions

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 01:34:34PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> Do you find information from a Linux allocation failure report sufficient
> >> for any function implementations here?
> > 
> > If kmalloc() and friends guarantee to print a warning and backtrace on
> > every allocation failure, then there's no need for error messages in
> > callers.
> > 
> > That seems like good justification that can go in the commit
> > description, but I'm not sure if kmalloc() and friends guarantee to show
> > a message (not just the first time, but for every failed allocation)?
> 
> I am also looking for a more complete and easier accessible documentation
> for this aspect of the desired exception handling.
> How would we like to resolve any remaining open issues there?

No objection from me but please make sure to keep vq_err().

Stefan

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