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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] fs/reiserfs/journal.c: Remove obsolete  __GFP_NOFAIL
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:27:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140321162740.41cae3d7de8205d23f5ff029@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140322002159.e1428d6a58899b38b379733c@skynet.be>

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:21:59 +0100 Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> wrote:

> > What we should do is to fix all these call sites so they can handle
> > memory exhaustion.  That's hard so in the interim they should be using
> > __GFP_NOFAIL.
> > 
> 
> Ok, if even ext4 comments are wrong, things gonna be very difficult :)
> Any sample of a callsite transition done well ?  (git id ?)

grep NOFAIL fs/jbd/*.c

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-21 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-21 16:18 Fabian Frederick
2014-03-21 20:00 ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-21 23:21   ` Fabian Frederick
2014-03-21 23:27     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-03-22 17:03   ` tytso
2014-03-22 17:15     ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-22 17:26       ` tytso
2014-03-22 17:32         ` tytso
2014-03-22 17:55           ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-22 18:12             ` tytso
2014-03-22 18:56             ` Joe Perches
2014-03-26  1:07               ` David Rientjes
2014-03-22 19:24             ` Dave Jones
2014-03-26  1:06               ` David Rientjes
2014-03-26  6:19                 ` tytso
2014-03-26  6:32                   ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-26 13:29                     ` tytso
2014-03-27  4:38                       ` David Rientjes
2014-03-22 21:13             ` Fabian Frederick
2014-03-24 14:00   ` One Thousand Gnomes

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