Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: support fallible mempool_alloc_bulk()
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:11 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-block,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm |
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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.