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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12 v3] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_ZEROFLAGS
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:09:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110725170932.GA1937@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311613642.2914.40.camel@doink>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> - Look into having xfs_qm_dqalloc() return ENOMEM when
>   it is unable to allocate a buffer, and fix all the
>   callers up the chain so they handle such a situation
>   appropriately.  Right now such errors get reset.

It's not.  We allocate buffers inside dirty transactions, so we
really cannot handle errors there.  I've been trying to fix that
last time in about 2002 or 2003, and it didn't go very far.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-22 23:39 [PATCH 00/12 v3] Remove number of macros from xfs_buf.h Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 23:39 ` [PATCH 01/12 v3] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_BFLAGS Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 23:39 ` [PATCH 02/12 v3] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_ZEROFLAGS Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-24 11:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-25 15:57     ` Alex Elder
2011-07-25 16:27       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-25 17:07         ` Alex Elder
2011-07-25 17:09           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-07-25 22:21           ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-25 14:51   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-22 23:39 ` [PATCH 03/12 v3] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_ERROR and family Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-24 11:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-22 23:39 ` [PATCH 04/12 v3] xfs: Remove macro XFS_BUF_BUSY " Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 05/12 v3] xfs: Remove macro XFS_BUF_HOLD Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 06/12 v3] xfs: Remove macro XFS_BUF_SET_START Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 07/12 v3] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_PTR Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 08/12 v3] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_SET_PTR Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 09/12 v3] Replace the macro XFS_BUF_ISPINNED with helper xfs_buf_ispinned Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 10/12 v3] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_SET_TARGET Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-24 11:41   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 11/12 v3] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUF_TARGET Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 12/12 v3] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUFTARG_NAME Chandra Seetharaman
2011-07-25 17:36 ` [PATCH 00/12 v3] Remove number of macros from xfs_buf.h Alex Elder
2011-07-25 20:26   ` Christoph Hellwig

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