Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] dmaengine: Remove site specific OOM error messages on kzalloc

From: Lee Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 16:30:34 +0100

On Wed, 08 Jun 2016, Linus Walleij wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Peter Griffin <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > If kzalloc() fails it will issue it's own error message including
> > a dump_stack(). So remove the site specific error messages.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Griffin <[email-masked]>
> 
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <[email-masked]>
> 
> A few subsystems may use a cleanup like this...
> I wonder how many unnecessary prints I've introduced
> myself :P

Wolfram did some analysis on this a while back.  IIRC he also
presented on his findings at ELC(?).
 
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