Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/vmalloc: Print a warning message first on failure

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 06:52:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2021 12:33:42 +0200 Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Please find the v4 version of the patch that is in question:
> > 
> > >From 7e27e4ac8f299ae244e9e0e90e0292ae2c08d37d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 23:41:21 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH v4 1/1] mm/vmalloc: Print a warning message first on failure
> 
> Added, thanks.
> 
> Matthew has a point of course, but I do think that any console driver
> which tries to allocate memory within the cotext of printk() is so
> pathetic that it isn't worth compromising core code to cater for it...

I'm fine with v4 of this patch, fwiw.  I saw no advantage to the earlier
version, but now that the advantage has been explained, the advantage
outweighs the disadvantage.