From: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
akpm@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] slub: return correct error on slab_sysfs_init
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:39:54 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1406190939030.2785@gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1406181314290.10339@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, David Rientjes wrote:
> Why? kset_create_and_add() can fail for a few other reasons other than
> memory constraints and given that this is only done at bootstrap, it
> actually seems like a duplicate name would be a bigger concern than low on
> memory if another init call actually registered it.
Greg said that the only reason for failure would be out of memory.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-19 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-18 1:29 Jeff Liu
2014-06-18 20:16 ` David Rientjes
2014-06-19 14:39 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-06-19 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-19 21:34 ` David Rientjes
2014-06-20 13:51 ` Jeff Liu
2014-06-20 22:30 ` David Rientjes
2014-06-21 8:49 ` Jeff Liu
2014-06-23 13:59 ` Christoph Lameter
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