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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH percpu/for-3.11 1/2] percpu-refcount: add __must_check to percpu_ref_init() and don't use ACCESS_ONCE() in percpu_ref_kill_rcu()
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:25:14 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5a6n71o.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130613035201.GD9451@mtj.dyndns.org>

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> writes:
> Two small changes.
>
> * Unlike most init functions, percpu_ref_init() allocates memory and
>   may fail.  Let's mark it with __must_check in case the caller
>   forgets.

But it's quite OK to ignore OOM errors in builtin init functions.

It would be neatest to have it fail into slow mode, of course, but it's
probably not worth the pain.

Cheers,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-19  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-13  3:52 [PATCH percpu/for-3.11 1/2] percpu-refcount: add __must_check to percpu_ref_init() and don't use ACCESS_ONCE() in percpu_ref_kill_rcu() Tejun Heo
2013-06-13  3:52 ` [PATCH percpu/for-3.11 2/2] percpu-refcount: implement percpu_ref_cancel_init() Tejun Heo
2013-06-13  3:56   ` Kent Overstreet
2013-06-13  3:58     ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-13  4:00       ` Kent Overstreet
2013-06-13 18:09         ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-19  2:55 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-06-19  8:21   ` [PATCH percpu/for-3.11 1/2] percpu-refcount: add __must_check to percpu_ref_init() and don't use ACCESS_ONCE() in percpu_ref_kill_rcu() Tejun Heo
2013-06-20  0:59     ` Rusty Russell
2013-06-20  2:23       ` Tejun Heo

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