Re: [PATCH] JBD slab cleanups

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>]

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.

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