Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM-SMMU: Delete error messages for a failed memory allocation in three functions | From | Robin Murphy <> | Date | Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:47:13 +0000 |
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On 20/01/18 14:36, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> > Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:30:17 +0100 > > Omit extra messages for a memory allocation failure in these functions.
Why?
It's your job as patch author to convince reviewers and maintainers why your change is a good thing and they should spend their time looking at it, much less consider merging it. This may as well be "delete some stuff because I feel like it".
Do bear in mind the nature of these drivers; Arm SMMUs are not something you find in microcontrollers. On systems using these drivers, it will make no difference whatsoever to anyone if the many-megabyte kernel image is 47 bytes (or whatever) smaller.
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
I think I'm going to have to start treating mention of Coccinelle as a potential disclaimer saying "I haven't attempted to understand the code I'm changing" :(
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> > --- > drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 9 +++------ > drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c | 9 +++------ > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c > index f122071688fd..5c2a7103d494 100644 > --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c > +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c > @@ -2134,10 +2134,8 @@ static int arm_smmu_init_l1_strtab(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu) > void *strtab = smmu->strtab_cfg.strtab; > > cfg->l1_desc = devm_kzalloc(smmu->dev, size, GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!cfg->l1_desc) { > - dev_err(smmu->dev, "failed to allocate l1 stream table desc\n");
OK, I'll stop playing *completely* dumb; I do know you would get a splat if kmalloc() ever did fail. But what you're removing isn't printk("failed to allocate memory\n"), it's a message which says exactly what allocation failed *for which device*. Can you clarify how I'm going to diagnose this particular problem from the generic splat when all I have is en email from a customer with a dmesg dump?
> + if (!cfg->l1_desc) > return -ENOMEM; > - } > > for (i = 0; i < cfg->num_l1_ents; ++i) { > arm_smmu_write_strtab_l1_desc(strtab, &cfg->l1_desc[i]); > @@ -2828,10 +2826,9 @@ static int arm_smmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > bool bypass; > > smmu = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*smmu), GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!smmu) { > - dev_err(dev, "failed to allocate arm_smmu_device\n"); > + if (!smmu) > return -ENOMEM; > - } > + > smmu->dev = dev; > > if (dev->of_node) { > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c > index 78d4c6b8f1ba..a4da4a870a2e 100644 > --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c > +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c > @@ -2048,10 +2048,9 @@ static int arm_smmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > int num_irqs, i, err; > > smmu = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*smmu), GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!smmu) { > - dev_err(dev, "failed to allocate arm_smmu_device\n"); > + if (!smmu) > return -ENOMEM; > - } > + > smmu->dev = dev; > > if (dev->of_node) > @@ -2084,10 +2083,8 @@ static int arm_smmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > > smmu->irqs = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*smmu->irqs) * num_irqs, > GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!smmu->irqs) { > - dev_err(dev, "failed to allocate %d irqs\n", num_irqs);
This more than any other is removing potentially useful information: "failed to allocate 37890756 irqs", for instance, would indicate a bug which is very much *not* an out-of-memory condition.
Robin.
> + if (!smmu->irqs) > return -ENOMEM; > - } > > for (i = 0; i < num_irqs; ++i) { > int irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, i); >
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