From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750805AbWFWOtf (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:49:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750807AbWFWOtf (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:49:35 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:64922 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750805AbWFWOte (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:49:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:49:28 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Linus Torvalds , David Teigland , Patrick Caulfield , Kevin Anderson , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GFS2 and DLM Message-ID: <20060623144928.GA32694@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Steven Whitehouse , Linus Torvalds , David Teigland , Patrick Caulfield , Kevin Anderson , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1150805833.3856.1356.camel@quoit.chygwyn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1150805833.3856.1356.camel@quoit.chygwyn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:17:13PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > Hi, > > Linus, Andrew suggested to me to send this pull request to you directly. > Please consider merging the GFS2 filesystem and DLM from (they are both > in the same tree for ease of testing): The code uses GFP_NOFAIL for slab allocator calls. It's been pointed out here numerous times that this can't work. Andrew, what about adding a check to slab.c to bail out if someone passes it?