linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/5] jbd2: Pass extra bool parameter in journal routines to specify if its ok to fail the journal transaction allocation.

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Date:	Thu, 12 May 2011 23:37:05 -0700
From:	Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@...il.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] jbd2: Pass extra bool parameter in journal routines
 to specify if its ok to fail the journal transaction allocation.

Hi Jan,

Thanks for your patient feedback.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  sorry I got to your patches with a delay. One general note - please do
> not attach patches. It is enough to have them in the email...
>
> On Sun 24-04-11 17:10:41, Manish Katiyar wrote:
>> Pass extra bool parameter in journal routines to specify if its ok to
>> fail the journal transaction allocation. If 'true' is passed
>> transaction allocation is done through GFP_KERNEL  and ENOMEM is
>> returned else GFP_NOFS is used.
>  Please, do not mix error handling with gfp masks. Instead just rename
> jbd2__journal_start() to jbd2_journal_start() and change gfp_mask parameter
> to "bool errok".

ok.

> Use GFP_NOFS gfp mask for start_this_handle().
I think I didn't completely understand this line. You meant passing
GFP_KERNEL or GFP_NOFS based on errok right ?

> Also your patch series should be bisectable - that means it must compile
> and run after any of the patches. So you cannot really change
> jbd2_journal_start() prototype without changing all the filesystems using
> it. In this case, just include in this patch a simple change for ext4 and
> ocfs2 to pass 'false' in the additional argument.

ok.. Will submit the first patch as everyone passing false as the
errok argument.

-- 
Thanks -
Manish
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