Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jul 2015 23:33:41 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm/shrinker: make unregister_shrinker() less fragile |
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:47:32AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > Yes, but the main difference here is that it seems that shrinker users > don't tend to treat shrinker registration failures as fatal errors and > just continue with shrinker functionality disabled. And it makes sense. > > (copy paste from https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/9/751) >
I hearily disagree. It's not any less critical than other failures.
The right way forward is to handle register failure properly.
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