From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] jbd2: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:40:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1007231240180.5317@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100723150543.GG13090@thunk.org>
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> __GFP_NOFAIL is going away, so add our own retry loop. Also add
> jbd2__journal_start() and jbd2__journal_restart() which take a gfp
> mask, so that file systems can optionally (re)start transaction
> handles using GFP_KERNEL. If they do this, then they need to be
> prepared to handle receiving an PTR_ERR(-ENOMEM) error, and be ready
> to reflect that error up to userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Will you be pushing the equivalent patch for jbd?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-21 2:44 [patch 0/6] remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL for failable allocations David Rientjes
2010-07-21 2:44 ` [patch 1/6] sparc: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL David Rientjes
2010-07-21 3:31 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 9:41 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-21 2:44 ` [patch 2/6] infiniband: " David Rientjes
2010-07-21 3:19 ` Steve Wise
2010-07-21 17:55 ` Roland Dreier
2010-07-21 2:45 ` [patch 3/6] fs: " David Rientjes
2010-07-23 19:36 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-23 19:51 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-23 21:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-21 2:45 ` [patch 4/6] gfs2: " David Rientjes
2010-07-21 9:24 ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-07-21 9:31 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-21 2:45 ` [patch 6/6] jbd2: " David Rientjes
2010-07-22 14:14 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-22 18:09 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-22 23:09 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-22 23:24 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-23 14:10 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-23 14:57 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-23 15:05 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-23 15:32 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-23 19:40 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2010-07-23 19:52 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-21 19:26 ` [patch 5/6] jbd: " David Rientjes
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