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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Colin Ngam <cngam@sgi.com>, Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com,
	jbarnes@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Altix I/O code cleanup
Date: 17 Oct 2003 09:36:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq03cdsx9xh.fsf@wildopensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031017091125.A22492@infradead.org>

>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

Christoph> Of course - but that's not that point.  You have to handle
Christoph> an out of memory situtation propery because it may happen
Christoph> all the time - you should not panic at all.  The
Christoph> ASSERT_ALWAYS just confuses automatic checker tools that
Christoph> help to find such conditions.

Again,

>From a purely theoretical standpoint as I don't remember the code in
question's situation, this again depends on where in the codepath you
hit this. If you don't get your memory for certain key data structures
early on, there's really very little you can do but panic().

Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-17 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-10 21:49 [PATCH] Altix I/O code cleanup Patrick Gefre
2003-10-10 21:51 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-10-10 22:50   ` David Mosberger
2003-10-10 23:51     ` Jesse Barnes
2003-10-13  8:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-13 10:55       ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-13 14:06         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-13  8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-15  8:07   ` Jes Sorensen
2003-10-15 12:55     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-16 13:08       ` Jes Sorensen
2003-10-16 16:40         ` Colin Ngam
2003-10-17  8:11           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-17 13:36             ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-13 15:22 Pat Gefre

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