Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 4/5] btrfs: add nofail variant of set_extent_dirty | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:30:55 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 03:50 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > Add set_extent_dirty_nofail(). This function is equivalent to > set_extent_dirty(), except that it will never fail because of allocation > failure and instead loop forever trying to allocate memory. > > If the first allocation attempt fails, a warning will be emitted, > including a call trace. Subsequent failures will suppress this warning. > > This was added as a helper function for documentation and auditability. > No future callers should be added. > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> > --- > fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 8 ++++---- > fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > fs/btrfs/extent_io.h | 2 ++ > 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
I'd much rather someone help mason to clean this up.
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