Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: support fallible mempool_alloc_bulk()

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.block,gmane.linux.kernel.mm,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 03:10:30PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> To fix a deadlock, blk-crypto-fallback needs to be able to make fallible
> mempool_alloc_bulk() allocations.

It doesn't.  fallible mempool allocations are a concept that doesn't
make much sense.  Please just go straight to the backing page allocator
instead for callers that do not need the mempool guarantees.
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