Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752977Ab0HXOED (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:04:03 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:52123 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751392Ab0HXOEA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:04:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc From: Peter Zijlstra To: Dave Chinner Cc: David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Neil Brown , Alasdair G Kergon , Chris Mason , Steven Whitehouse , Jens Axboe , Jan Kara , Frederic Weisbecker , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20100824135522.GK31488@dastard> References: <1282656558.2605.2742.camel@laptop> <20100824135522.GK31488@dastard> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:03:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1282658611.2605.2781.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 501 Lines: 11 On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 23:55 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > no one has noticed > that XFS has been doing these "allocations can't fail" loop in > kmem_alloc() and kmem_zone_alloc(), well, forever I occasionally check if its still there and cry a little ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/