From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Anna Pendleton <pendleton@google.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: avoid ext4_error()'s caused by ENOMEM in the truncate path
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 12:55:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200521165548.GA2946569@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200507175028.15061-1-pendleton@google.com>
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 10:50:28AM -0700, Anna Pendleton wrote:
> From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
>
> We can't fail in the truncate path without requiring an fsck.
> Add work around for this by using a combination of retry loops
> and the __GFP_NOFAIL flag.
>
> From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Anna Pendleton <pendleton@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>
Thanks, applied.
Per the feedback from the kbuild test robot, I changed "int gfp_flags =..." to
"gfp_t gfp_flags=..." in three places in the patches.
Cheers,
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-21 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-07 17:50 [PATCH] ext4: avoid ext4_error()'s caused by ENOMEM in the truncate path Anna Pendleton
2020-05-12 6:37 ` kbuild test robot
2020-05-12 6:37 ` kbuild test robot
2020-05-21 16:55 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
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2020-05-08 20:39 kbuild test robot
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