From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>,
ngupta@vflare.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/zsmalloc: add statistics support
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:45:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141219154548.3aa4cc02b3322f926aa4c1d6@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141219233937.GA11975@blaptop>
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 08:39:37 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> Then, we should fix debugfs_create_dir can return errno to propagate the error
> to end user who can know it was failed ENOMEM or EEXIST.
Impractical. Every caller of every debugfs interface will need to be
changed!
It's really irritating and dumb. What we're supposed to do is to
optionally report the failure, then ignore it. This patch appears to
be OK in that respect.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-19 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-19 12:55 Ganesh Mahendran
2014-12-19 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2014-12-19 23:39 ` Minchan Kim
2014-12-19 23:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-12-19 23:58 ` Minchan Kim
2014-12-20 0:06 ` Andrew Morton
2014-12-20 0:10 ` Minchan Kim
2014-12-20 0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2014-12-20 0:23 ` Minchan Kim
2014-12-20 0:54 ` Minchan Kim
2014-12-20 1:43 ` Ganesh Mahendran
2014-12-20 2:25 ` Minchan Kim
2014-12-23 2:26 ` Ganesh Mahendran
2014-12-23 2:40 ` Minchan Kim
2015-01-12 20:07 ` Seth Jennings
2014-12-20 1:35 ` Ganesh Mahendran
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