Re: [PATCH v2] mm: Fix error handling in __filemap_get_folio() with FGP_NOWAIT

[Raphael S. Carvalho]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM Raphael S. Carvalho
<raphaelsc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 03:33:29PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > I don't think it needs a comment at all, but the memory allocation
> > > might be for something other than folios, so your suggested comment
> > > is misleading.
> >
> > Then s/folio/memory/
>
> The context of the comment is error handling. ENOMEM can come from
> either folio allocation / addition (there's an allocation for xarray
> node). So is it really wrong to say folios given the context of the
> comment? It's not supposed to be a generic comment, but rather one
> that applies to its context.
>
> Maybe this change:
> -                         * When NOWAIT I/O fails to allocate folios this could
> +                         * When NOWAIT I/O fails to allocate memory for folio
>
> Or perhaps just what hch suggested.

Matthew, please let me know what you think, so we can move forward
with this. Thanks.