Hello Varun,

On 01/30/2015 03:43 AM, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote:
> Hi Emil,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Emil Medve [mailto:emilian.me...@freescale.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:05 PM
>> To: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org; j...@8bytes.org; jroe...@suse.de;
>> Sethi Varun-B16395
>> Cc: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
>> Subject: [PATCH 11/26] iommu/fsl: Fix checkpatch type OOM_MESSAGE
>>
>> WARNING:OOM_MESSAGE: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
>> +       if (!data) {
>> +               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "PAMU isr data memory allocation
>> + failed\n");
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <emilian.me...@freescale.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/iommu/fsl_pamu.c | 1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/fsl_pamu.c b/drivers/iommu/fsl_pamu.c index
>> 4f1926b..6f9c976 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iommu/fsl_pamu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/fsl_pamu.c
>> @@ -1041,7 +1041,6 @@ static int __init fsl_pamu_probe(struct
>> platform_device *pdev)
>>
>>      data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
>>      if (!data) {
>> -            dev_err(&pdev->dev, "PAMU isr data memory allocation
>> failed\n");
>>              ret = -ENOMEM;
>>              goto error;
>>      }
> I think this is fine, there are other places as well where we have
> error prints while setting the ENOMEM as the return code.

This is a checkpatch report and I quote from the log:

>     Logging messages that show some type of "out of memory" error are
>     generally unnecessary as there is a generic message and a stack dump
>     done by the memory subsystem.

I think this particular dev_err() doesn't add extra


Cheers,
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