Re: [PATCH] JBD slab cleanups

Andreas Dilger
2007-09-19T19:47:48Z

On Sep 19, 2007 12:15 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> @@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ static int start_this_handle(journal_t *
>
> alloc_transaction:
> if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
> - new_transaction = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction),
> - GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
> + new_transaction = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction), GFP_NOFS);

This should probably be a __GFP_NOFAIL if we are trying to start a new
handle in truncate, as there is no way to propagate an error to the caller.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.