Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:28:13 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL |
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:51:03 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Mon 16-08-10 19:58:01, David Rientjes wrote: > > Removes the dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL by looping indefinitely in the > > caller. > > > > The error handling when kzalloc() returns NULL in start_this_handle() > > was removed since it was unreachable. > Thanks! I've added the patch to my tree.
Please unadd it. JBD should be fixed so that it can appropriately handle out-of-memory conditions. Until that time we shouldn't hide its shortcomings with this open-coded equivalent.
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