From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] btrfs: add nofail variant of set_extent_dirty
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:30:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282656655.2605.2746.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008240348150.19596@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 03:50 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> Add set_extent_dirty_nofail(). This function is equivalent to
> set_extent_dirty(), except that it will never fail because of allocation
> failure and instead loop forever trying to allocate memory.
>
> If the first allocation attempt fails, a warning will be emitted,
> including a call trace. Subsequent failures will suppress this warning.
>
> This was added as a helper function for documentation and auditability.
> No future callers should be added.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> ---
> fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 8 ++++----
> fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> fs/btrfs/extent_io.h | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
I'd much rather someone help mason to clean this up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-24 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-24 10:50 [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc David Rientjes
2010-08-24 10:50 ` [patch 4/5] btrfs: add nofail variant of set_extent_dirty David Rientjes
2010-08-24 13:30 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-08-24 12:15 ` [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc Jan Kara
2010-08-24 13:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-24 13:33 ` Jens Axboe
2010-08-24 20:11 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-25 11:24 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-25 11:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 11:57 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-25 12:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 12:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 13:20 ` Theodore Tso
2010-08-25 13:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 20:43 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-25 20:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 21:11 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-25 21:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 23:11 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-26 0:19 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-26 0:30 ` David Rientjes
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008251724360.25783@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
2010-08-26 1:48 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-26 3:09 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-26 6:38 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008251951230.7034@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
2010-08-26 7:06 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-26 8:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 13:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 13:24 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-25 13:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 20:53 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-25 20:59 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-25 21:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 20:58 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-25 21:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-25 21:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-25 21:23 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-25 21:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-25 23:05 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-26 1:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-26 3:12 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-26 14:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-26 22:31 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-26 0:09 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-25 14:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-24 13:55 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-24 14:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-24 20:12 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-24 20:08 ` David Rientjes
2010-09-02 1:02 ` [patch v2 " David Rientjes
2010-09-02 1:03 ` [patch v2 4/5] btrfs: add nofail variant of set_extent_dirty David Rientjes
2010-09-02 7:59 ` [patch v2 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc Jiri Slaby
2010-09-02 14:51 ` Jan Kara
2010-09-02 21:15 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-05 23:03 ` David Rientjes
2010-09-05 23:01 ` David Rientjes
2010-09-06 9:05 ` David Rientjes
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