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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@gmail.com>,
	Zhang Qiang <Qiang.Zhang@windriver.com>,
	Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
	Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Revert "mm/page_alloc: make should_fail_alloc_page() static"
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:36:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210715073633.GN3809@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YO/XDUoj1N7tlZKa@infradead.org>

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 07:34:53AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 02:56:25PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
> > 
> > This reverts commit f7173090033c70886d925995e9dfdfb76dbb2441.
> > 
> > Fix an unresolved symbol error when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y:
> 
> I still fundamentally disagreed with this "fix".  Whatever code requires
> a function to be non-static without a prototype and reference is
> completely fucked up beyond rescue and needs to be disabled util
> it can be fixed instead of worked around like this.

I'm definitely not happy with the fix but the breakage was unintentional
and given that it was done for a W=1 warning, the patch was low priority
and I felt that users that do error injection to stress failure paths at
least had some value. If I was fixing something important, I would feel
differently and we've slammed patches before that fixed warnings while
introducing worse problems. I'm still hoping that BTF gets fixed because
it's the right thing to do.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-15  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-13 13:56 [PATCH 0/4] 5.14-rc1 mm/page_alloc.c stray patches Mel Gorman
2021-07-13 13:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm/page_alloc: Avoid page allocator recursion with pagesets.lock held Mel Gorman
2021-07-13 13:56 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/page_alloc: correct return value when failing at preparing Mel Gorman
2021-07-13 14:21   ` Chuck Lever III
2021-07-13 14:56     ` Mel Gorman
2021-07-13 15:01       ` Chuck Lever III
2021-07-13 15:21         ` Mel Gorman
2021-07-13 13:56 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm/page_alloc: Further fix __alloc_pages_bulk() return value Mel Gorman
2021-07-13 13:56 ` [PATCH 4/4] Revert "mm/page_alloc: make should_fail_alloc_page() static" Mel Gorman
2021-07-15  6:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-15  7:36     ` Mel Gorman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-07-13 15:20 [PATCH 0/4 v2] 5.14-rc1 mm/page_alloc.c stray patches Mel Gorman
2021-07-13 15:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] Revert "mm/page_alloc: make should_fail_alloc_page() static" Mel Gorman
2021-07-14  7:06   ` John Hubbard
2021-07-15  8:35     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-07-16  0:04       ` John Hubbard
2021-07-16  6:04         ` John Hubbard

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